Murray Woodman

Content Management Systems (CMS) now proliferate. It is now common for content providers to have software that manages and categorises their content assets. Metadata standards now exist (RDF, XTM, RSS). Influential thinkers, such as Tim Berners Lee, have popularised the concept of the semantic web. Standards Organisations (ISO, W3C) have put effort into defining exchange syntax. The groundswell is rising slowly. How do we take advantage of this? more…

I had just got into topic maps in a major way and was thinking about possible applications for topic maps. At this point Google hadn’t come into its own and search directories such as Yahoo were beginning to show their shortcomings. Other indexers such as Alta Vista couldn’t provide context to searches and were being polluted by fake submissions. Topic maps describe relationships in the subject domain, rather than keywords in the resource domain. This made them a good candidate for solving the problems search engines were facing. more…