Dear all--
the announcement quoted below might be of interest to this list.
The GooseWorks Toolkit is a free topic map processor that is designed to
handle various kinds of input to create a topic map graph representation
of the encoded information. The first other markup (besides XTM) that
the processor can handle is XHTML that uses DC in <meta> elements.
The processing model that provides the formalism for the transformation is
avalable at http://www.topicmapping.com/psi/dc/dc.html . One of the
things we plan to implement in the near future is the ability to process
RDF/DC in the same way.
Any criticism or suggestions about the approach taken to 'translate' the
DC semantics to the topic map world is very welcome
For information on topic maps see
http://www.topicmaps.org and
http://www.topicmaps.net
Thanks for your interest
--Jan
Original Announcement:
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The alpha release of the GooseWorks Toolkit is available for download
at www.goose-works.org.
The GooseWorks (GW) Toolkit is an implementation of the
'Topicmaps.net's Processing Model for XTM' by Steven R. Newcomb and
Michel Biezunski, referred to as PMTM4. It is a toolkit that provides
the major building blocks to assemble topic map applications of various
kinds such as command line tools, CGI applications, web browser
plug-ins, and large-scale editing and processing applications. It is
written in C and thus can be easily used as an extension to common
scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Perl. Currently a Python
extension module is included in the distribution.
The GW toolkit currently consists of the following parts: (1) A
Processor capable of parsing various document types that contain topic
map information; (2) A Python extension to use the processor in a
scripting environment; (3) A topic map graph implementation with in
memory storage of all data. This can be used for validation of or quick
inquiry into a topic map; (4) A prototype implementation of a topic map
graph in Python to be used with the Python extension. This prototype
also implements a sketch for a subject based topic map query language
(sTMQL); (5) Some tools and examples to get started with and to explore
topic maps.
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Jan Algermissen, Programmer
http://www.topicmapping.com
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