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Who am I?
In charge of developing a Norwegian portal on
food safety 2002-2003

Communications officer, Norwegian Scientific
Committee for Food Safety June 2004
Hope to launch www.vkm.no next week
Knut Albert Solem, knso_at_fhi.no
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Key concepts

• Topic maps a set of topics and associations
  between them
• Topics
• Associations
• Occurances

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Information silos

• A way of overcoming the information silos

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The digital cesspool

• Avoid losing information in the digital cesspool.
• Beyond Google Full text indexes index everything

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Widely used in Norway

• Public sector web sites (a strong tool when you
  have lots of information to share - free of
  charge)
• Growing use on intranets
• Zope platform (www.zope.org)
• Zope Topic Maps (ZTM)

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ISO Standard

• ISO 13250 (2000)
• File format XML Topic maps (XTM)

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Topic maps Two layers

Based on the index model
The knowledge layer
The information layer
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Breweries
Heineken
London brewers
Beer types
Pubs
Ale
Lager
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The knowledge layer

Food and drink
Restaurants
Bitter
Pubs
Beer
Youngs
Walks
Pub crawls
Good Beer Guide
Fullers
Guide books
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Tied to
Recommended in
Web page
serves
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Scope

• Language perspectives
• Audience perspectives
• Time perspectives
• Author perspectives

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Merging topic maps
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Links

• http//www.ontopia.net/
• Steve Pepper The TAO of Topic Maps
  http//www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.htm
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• Kal Ahmed Introducing Topic Maps
• (XML Journal vol 03, issue 10)
• http//www.sys-con.com/xml/
• http//www.topicmaps.org/index.html
• www.forskning.no
• www.matportalen.no
• knso_at_fhi.no