Intelligent Information Systems Group

The Latest ...

January 27, 2008 -- O4E Wiki is launched! This ended several-month efforts to create a XWiki-based virtual wiki and transfer all content from the Ontologies for Education (O4E) Portal.

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January 05, 2008 -- Freshmen Adam Williams, Darrian Cunningham and Gregory Goddard joined the IIS Research Group. Welcome!!

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November 21, 2007 -- Dr. Lars Johnsen presented a talk "Onto-Rhetorical Topic Maps: A Framework for Integrating Learning Content" on the CS Research seminar.

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November 19-25, 2007 -- Dr. Lars Johnsen from the Department of Business Communication and Information Science University of Southern Denmark, visited the IIS Group to discuss possible research collaboration. He uses TM4L in his classes.

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November 12, 2007 -- Darina Dicheva presented a paper on the Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, 6th Intl. Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007, November 11-15, 2007, Busan, Korea

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October 10, 2007 -- A new version of the TM4L software has been released. It had 487 downloads in the first week.

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October 4-7, 2007 -- Tim Campbell and Jerry Akouala presented at the 2007 HBCU-UP National Research Conference, Washington, DC, Greensboro, NC

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September 28, 2007 -- Will Thomas, Tim Campbell and Cris Brown presented at the 6th Annual OPT-ED Alliance Day, Greensboro, NC

Topic Maps

TM Index Pages

http://www.topicmap.com/
http://www.topicmaps.org/

Topic Maps Weblog - the freshest content out of any Topic Map site!
http://topicmaps.it.bond.edu.au/weblogs.mc

A Collaborative TM Site
http://easytopicmaps.com/

TM Web Site Links at AI-techs.com
http://www.ai-techs.com/Top_Computers_Artificial_Intelligence_Knowledge_Representation_Topic_Maps.html

TMwiki - A wiki about topic maps
http://www.topic-maps.org/

The TM Links of Lars Garshol
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/tmlinks.html

TM Tutorials/Documents

Park, J. and Hunting, S. (2002). XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

Steve Pepper's TM Tutorial
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html

Robert Barta's TM Tutorials at Bond University
http://topicmaps.it.bond.edu.au/tutorial/
http://topicmaps.it.bond.edu.au/docs/6/toc

Garshol L.M. What are Topic maps, 2002
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/topicmaps.html

Pepper S. Ten Theses on Topic Maps and RDF, 2002
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/rdf.html

Garshol L.M. Topic maps, RDF, DAML, OIL. A comparison, 2002
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tmrdfoildaml.html

Garshol L.M. Living with Topic Maps and RDF (2003)
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tmrdf.html

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 Information Technology - Document Description and Processing Languages. The Standard Application Model for Topic Maps.
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0356_files/0356.html

XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/

TM Papers

Extreme Markup Languages 2003
http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme03/titles.html

TM Applications

Publicly Available Topic Maps
http://www.topicmapping.com/registry.html

Ontopia's Scripts and Languages Topic Map
http://www.ontopia.net/i18n/index.jsp

TM3D Topic Map 3D Viewer
http://silpion.dyndns.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=1

xSiteable: Site Builder in XSLT
http://www.shelter.nu/xsiteable/

Informatics Topic Map (in German)
http://www.lmtm.de/InformatiXTM/

The Topic Map-driven Web Site of the State of Liechtenstein
http://www.liechtenstein.li/en/

Topic Map of Accounting and Auditing
http://www.accountingontology.com/

Topic Maps for the Virtual Observatory
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam/science/topicmaps/

TM Companies

Ontopia: http://www.ontopia.net/
Ontopia's Free Omnigator: http://www.ontopia.net/download/freedownload.html
Infoloom: http://www.infoloom.com/
Mondeca: http://www.mondeca.com/
Empolis: http://www.empolis.co.uk/
GooseWorks: http://www.gooseworks.org
Techquila: http://www.techquila.com/

TM4J (Topic Maps for Java)

The TM4J (Topic Maps for Java) Project
http://tm4j.org/dg-d0e35.html

TM4J Tutorial
http://www.techquila.com/tm4j-tutorial.html

Developing a Topic Map Programming Model (Khal Ahmed)
http://www2.gca.org/knowledgetechnologies/2001/proceedings/ahmed/index.html
http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml2001papers/tm/web/05-04-03/05-04-03.htm

TM4J-users Discussion List
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tm4j-users

Other Topic Maps Engines

tm4jscript (Topic Maps for JavaScript)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tm4jscript/

tinyTIM (A tiny TM engine)
http://tinytim.sourceforge.net/

The Semantic Web

The Semantic Web Portal
http://www.semanticweb.org/

Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics
http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/

Several Keynotes on the Semantic Web
http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/lib/presentations.html

Tim Berners-Lee, J. Hendler & O.Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American, 2001.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21

Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/

The DARPA Agent Markup Language Homepage (DAML)
http://www.daml.org/

Free XML Tools
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/xmltools/cat_ix.html#SC_TMEngine

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Ontologies, Conceptual Structures

Guided Tour of Ontology (John Sowa)
http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/guided.htm

John Bateman's Ontology Portal
http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/webspace/jb/info-pages/ontology/ontology-root.htm

The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) Portal
http://www.ontologyportal.org/

Michael Denny's survey of ontology editors (2002)
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/ontologies.html

Stanford's KSL Interactive Ontology Server
http://www-ksl-svc.stanford.edu:5915/

Web-Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/

Ontology Inference Layer (OIL)
http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/

Building DAML+OIL Ontologies
http://oiled.man.ac.uk/building/

Ontology Editor using DAML+OIL
http://oiled.man.ac.uk//

TheBrain
http://www.thebrain.com/Default.htm

The Protege 2000 Ontology Editor
http://protege.stanford.edu/

OWL Plugin: A Semantic Web Ontology Editor for Protege http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins/owl/

Using Protege to Edit RDF
http://protege.stanford.edu/protege-rdf/protege-rdf.html

Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce
http://ontoweb.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/

The Conceptual Graphs Standard
http://www.jfsowa.com/cg/

Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations by John F. Sowa
http://www.jfsowa.com/krbook

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Java, Apache Ant, Apache Tomcat

Java: J2SE v 1.4.2:
Download: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Select SDK for Windows installation /second section/

Sun's Java Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/?frontpage-spotlight

Sun's Java Series of Free Java Books
http://java.about.com/cs/freejavaseries/index.htm

BlueJ (Java IDE)
http://www.bluej.org/

Open Source Java Components
http://autometa.com/javaindex/

Applet-to-Servlet Communication
http://www.j-nine.com/pubs/applet2servlet/index.htm
http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/index_frame.html?content=fields_servlet/fields_servlet.html

Applet-Servlet Communication (from Java Servlet Programming, by Jason Hunter with William Crawford, O'Reilly & Associates)
http://www.hk8.org/old_web/Java%20Enterprise/servlet/ch10_02.htm

Apache Ant
Download: http://ant.apache.org/manual/

An Excellent Ant Tutorial
http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/documentation/tutorials/docsystem/build/tutorials/ant/ant.html

Automate your build process using Java and Ant
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant-p2.html

Configuring and Using Apache Tomcat
http://www.moreservlets.com/Using-Tomcat-4.html

Using ANT with Tomcat
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/processes.html

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Mobile Computing

How to Create a Simple Java J2ME Application for BlackBerry
http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/207354.htm

EclipseMe Homepage
http://eclipseme.org/

Developing J2ME applications with EclipseME (User Registration Required)
https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/education/wi-nokia/

BlackBerry Development Home page and links for downloading JDE
http://www.blackberry.com/developers/index.shtml

Programming Blackberry with J2ME
http://blackberryblog.com/2005/05/16/programming_the_blackberry_with_j2me.html

EclipseME / Blackberry forum

Add XML parsing to your J2ME applications
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wi-parsexml/

Parsing XML in J2ME
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/midp/articles/parsingxml//

KXML: A Great Find for XML Parsing in J2ME
http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/11773

Introduction to Mobility Java Technology
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/getstart/

Wireless Development Tutorial
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/midp/articles/wtoolkit/

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