Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!
Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!
This is a great introduction to the concept of topic maps, and how they fit in with other sorts of digital marking for the purpose of capturing an ontological description of information.
As I see it from my readin, I understand a topic map to be similar to a formal ontological description, with a few main exceptions:
Tags: ontology, topic maps
This is a great introduction to the concept of topic maps, and how they fit in with other sorts of digital marking for the purpose of capturing an ontological description of information.
As I see it from my readin, I understand a topic map to be similar to a formal ontological description, with a few main exceptions:
- Topic Maps (TM) are largely visually oriented in presentation
- TM are more concerned with just the taxonomy
- Formal Ontologies (FO) are more concerned (than TM) with capturing information about properties of concepts, and rules governing relationships
- TM seem to be much less rigorous than FO
Tags: ontology, topic maps
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