1. Einführung in Topic Maps
Maiana
Share, mix and explore your data interlinked
Dr. Lutz Maicher & Dipl. Inf. Uta Schulze
University of Leipzig
{maicher,uta}@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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3. Maiana

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Let us give some impressions.
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Basic features so far
● Multiple user environment
● Follow users and watch topic maps
● Privacy
● Topic maps are per default not public
● You may share them.
● You may publish them.
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Basic features so far
● Import from different sources
● Export to several formats
● RESTfull URLs, e.g.
http://maiana.topicmapslab.de/u/uta/tm/toytm/t/si:http://dbpedia.org/resource/Germany
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Basic features so far
● Invite users to view your maps
● Comment on a map or topics
● Query using TMQL, current and older draft
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Basic features so far
● Validate against topic map schemes
● Embed a topic view using the widget
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Linking data and topic maps
Integrating Subj3ct.com
Virtual Merging
TmBrowse
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Integration of information
from Subj3ct.com
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http://maiana.topicmapslab.de/u/uta/tm/toytm/t/si:http://dbpedia.org/resource/Germany
identifier
information
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Virtual Merging
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Your
Topic maps
E
AT
wikipedia/
dbpedia
IV
PR
difficult
Merge
extracting?
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Your
Topic maps
E
AT
wikipedia/
dbpedia
IV
PR
Reading rights
• virtual
• on demand
Maiana-Container
-
• read only
a topic map
merging extracting
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TmBrowse
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TMBrowse enabled Server Maiana
(e.g. topicmapslab.de)
• list of projects More information occurrence
fragment http://www.topicmapslab.de/projects.xtm value: http://www.topicmapslab.de/maiana.xtm
type: http://psi.topicmapslab.de/tmbrowse/mi
• an instance of project Association: membership
fragment Player: Uta Schulze
http://www.topicmapslab.de/projects/maiana.xtm
with more information occurrence
value: http://www.topicmapslab.de/Daniel_Exner.xtm
type: http://psi.topicmapslab.de/tmbrowse/mi
fragment • an instance of person more information to Daniel Exner
http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Daniel_Exner.xtm
and so on
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Maiana's technical background
● Ruby on Rails with JRuby
● RTM and TMAPI
● Ontopia Topic Maps Engine, in Memory
● over 10 developers and 1500 revisions
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Thanks to the current developers
Marcel Hoyer Michael Prilop Faical Raji
Daniel Exner Sven Windisch
Arnim Bleier
Daniel Seifarth Michael Waldvogel
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How the Lab uses Maiana today
● Testing/Learning to write TMQL queries
● Communicating data mockups to costumers
● Sharing topic maps internally
● Publishing topic maps to the community
● Widget provider for YACCA
● Validating our topic maps
● Exploring the details of topic maps
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Outlook
● New upload possibilities
● TmBrowse
● Static and Dynamical URLs
● Remote Upload – interesting for Onotoa users
● Editing topic maps
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Outlook
● Watching of subjects and TMQL queries
● Providing to Subj3ct.com
● Full text search
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Feedback
Please contact us:
maiana@topicmapslab.de
Maiana
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Thank you for your attention!
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