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Topic Maps

Topicmap The ISO-standard Topic Maps specifies a uniform document model used to build knowledge representations (ontologies)
and knowledge maps. Topic Maps consist of less than 20 expressions, which make it quite easy to understand and use the vocabulary. This flexible model is not only an established concept to describe the semantics and relationship of topics, but also a versatile tool offering asymptotic modelling capabilities, which can be used to create embedded information resources (instead of referring to external information occurrences).

Topic Maps can be used for both creating knowledge maps of a general domain of knowledge (domain ontology) and creating documents strongly focussed to a subdomain of knowledge (subdomain ontology). Typical examples of such documents are guidelines
and regulations, e.g. coding standards and law procedures. But also the contents of digitalised books, each forming a coherent knowledge domain for its own, are possible resources.

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Austrian Geographical Name Register (GeoNam)


Geonam-Logo The Austrian Geographical Name Register is a digital publication (database) available on CD. To provide additional online-access to this publication for the scientific community, a low-cost document application based on Topic Maps has been created, instead of a traditional client-server application.

The original publication, containing more than 7000 entries of geographical names, has been exported from a database to a structured text-file at first and succeding been converted to Topic Maps by a text-mining tool.

To minimize the size of the Topic Maps for faster web access, no verbose semantics has been included. The "missing" semantics inside the Topic Maps are only created during runtime by resolving the known sequence of data step by step and adding meaning to it. Finally, the different presentation views of the Topic Maps are made by client-side XML to HTML transformations:

pfeil  View: alphabetic Name Index   pfeil  View: Object Categories
pfeil  View: geographic Relationship   pfeil  View: political Relationship
pfeil  View: Topic Map Graph     pfeil  GeoNam Lexikon Online


Motif Index of German Secular Narratives


Motif Index The Motif-Index presents a comprehensive catalogue of motifs of the German secular narrative literature from the beginning to 1400, based on the method of Stith Thompson_s "Motif Index of Folk Literature". The genre-based catalogues of motifs are arranged by work in alphabetical order:
  1. Matière de Bretagne Part 1, 2 (MdB I, MdB II)
  2. Chansons de Geste (CdG)
  3. Miscellaneous Romances (MR)
  4. Oriental Romances (OR)
  5. Heroic Epic (HR)
  6. Maere and Novellas (MN)
  7. Romances of Antiquity (RoA)
A typical example of a motif conform to Stith Thompson is:
F 451.3.3.8: Dwarf made invisible by magic caps
wich can be found in the narration of King Antelan (at 1300):
KoAnt-18:   Parzefal asks Antelan to show him the luxury of the armor. Antelan removes a ring and becomes visible. Parzefal admires the armor and says that it cannot have been made by a human hand.
To prepare this index for online-access, the original word-files have been converted to Topic Maps using text-mining. The different presentations views of the Topic Maps are made by client-side XML to HTML transformations:

pfeil  View: Motif-Index Overview   pfeil  View: Content Overview
pfeil  View: Topic Map Graph       pfeil  Motif Index Online