[sc34wg3] People Who Need Topic Maps

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings,

The January 2003 (Volume 46, Number 1) issue of Communications of the 
ACM, has several articles by people who need topic maps!

The major focus of the issue is "Digital Government" and covers a wide 
range of information assets used or delivered by various government 
agencies. Among others, you will find:

"COPLINK: Managing Law Enforcement Data and Knowledge" p28 (Echoes of 
Steve Newcomb's keynote on combattting terrorism.)

"Harvesting Information to Sustain Forests" p. 38

"Using an Ontology to Simplify Data Access" p. 47

An article not specifically on government resources that will also be of 
interest is:

"The Knowledge Grid: Designing, building and implementing an 
architecture for distributed knowledge discovery" p. 89

There are a number of articles in this issue that will be of interest to 
anyone promoting the use of topic maps and the foregoing is merely a 
sample of what can be found in this issue.

For anyone interested in new business models, Alan H. Karp (a principal 
scientist at Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA) offers: "Making Money 
Selling Content that Others Are Giving Away" p. 21

ACM members can access the journal online (with digital library 
subscription) via the ACM site at: http://www.acm.org. If you are not a 
member, you should seriously consider joining.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu