[TopicMapsInLIS] Topic Maps article for ELIS

[Liliana Melgar E.]

Greetings.

For me as a librarian, the article results clear and complete enough as a
general introduction to the TM model, but perhaps not very explicit in the
implications or future perspectives for the library community... I would
love to see a paragraph on the *perspectives of the TM model for Library
Science* explained in librarian terms, which would include some explicit
ideas of how TM could solve the problems that the library community faces
now.

I would love to write something, but I am still trying to grasp the ideas so
I couldn't be able to present them in a synthetic and clear way.I think that
a summary could be made of the talk that Alexander Johannesen gave in the
last Topic Maps conference in Oslo ("Visions for a Topic Mapped library":
http://www.topicmaps.com/tmc/presentation.jsp?conf=TM2008&id=TM2008~Alexander_Johannesen~Visions_for_a_Topic_Mapped_Library)
and also the one made by Prof. Sam Oh (
http://www.topicmaps.com/tmc/presentation.jsp?conf=TM2008&id=TM2008~Sam_Oh~MARC_FRBR_and_RDA)
and then to have it reviewed by some library expert and/or by themselves...

Also, as student of the International Master on Digital Library Learning, I
studied Topic Maps, but everywhere (in conferences and in other courses)
people only talk about RDF and keeps confusing TM with concept maps... so,
it would be important to present the differences between RDF and TM more
clear, but in the perspective of the implications for the library world
related also to the issue of how both of them approach the library issues.

And finally, I don't know if this would be relevant for this article, but I
have seen that there is also the problem of the digital library models going
on (like the DELOS one) which doesn't present at all Topic Maps into them.
One further issue to include in the future developments or perspectives -or
at least to mention because perhaps there is not work on this- is on the
possibilities of TM and this models to be integrated...

thank you, and best regards,
-- 
Liliana Melgar
Erasmus Mundus student
International Master in Digital Library Learning
http://dill.hio.no


2008/10/15 Steve Pepper <pepper.steve at gmail.com>:
> I have posted a new draft of my article on Topic Maps [1] for the upcoming
> 3rd Edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences.[2],
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> Thanks to everyone who commented on the first draft.
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> Further comments would be appreciated. Feel free to post them here if you
> think they might be of interest to others or provoke an interesting
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> Steve
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> [1] http://www.ontopedia.net/pepper/papers/ELIS-TopicMaps.pdf
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/dxf19/blogs/WEBLOG-NAME/2007/07/encyclopedia_of_library_and_in.html
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http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Library-Information-Sciences-Third/dp/084939712X
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> Steve Pepper
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> Blog: http://topicmaps.wordpress.com
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