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| Introduction To Topic Maps: The GPS Of The Web |
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posted by Editor on Thursday November 01, @11:56AM
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Until now, there has been no equivalent of the traditional back-of-book index for the web. The main problem with the full text indexes used by most search engines is their lack of discrimination. They index everything, like they were trying to create a traditional back-of-book index by taking every single word in the book, removing a couple of hundred of the most obviously useless ones, and then including every single usage of those that remain. Topic maps provide an approach that marries the best of several worlds, including those of traditional indexing, library science and knowledge representation, with advanced techniques of linking and addressing. This paper provides a non-technical introduction to topic maps (which have been called “the GPS of the web”), relating them to things that are familiar from the realms of publishing and information management, and attempting to convey some idea of the uses to which topic maps will be put in the future.
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