Eric van der Vlist has posted a
brief note to the www-rdf-interest mailing list concerning a simple
approach for representing XML topic maps in RDF.
Following ongoing discussions between RDF and XTM developers as to the
ultimate compatibility of their specifications, van der Vlist has
applied an approach he
published last year for translating XLink documents to RDF.
Despite his approach being, in his own words, "a quick hack," van der Vlist
obtained useful results:
I find the result quite encouraging, though and the topic map structure
appears well in the generated triples (to give it a try, just past the
RDF document into the online SIRPAC interface [2] that will also give
you a graphical representation of these triples).
(Cached
results as posted to the mailing list.)
Van der Vlist closes by explaining that the "right way" to define an
RDF representation of a Topic Maps is to work from the Topic Map data
model rather than using a syntactic transformation. Nevertheless, he
sees it as "an encouraging sign or proof of concept to show that Topic Maps
can be represented in RDF."
(Disclosure: van der Vlist is an xmlhack contributor.)
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