A new Topic Maps-driven web site is up: NRK/Skole. NRK is the Norwegian national broadcasting company, the Norwegian equivalent of the BBC. NRK/Skole is a collection of media clips (video and sound) from their archives, targeted at Norwegian school pupils.
It’s all in Norwegian, unfortunately, but some of the content is in English. Here’s Winston Churchill’s blood, sweat, and tears speech, for example.
You can access content via subject (a simple taxonomy), person, program, or, perhaps most interesting, via the curriculum. The Norwegian national curriculum has been published as a topic map, and the NRK/Skole site connects its clips with that topic map, thus letting pupils and teachers browse the site via the curriculum. This means they can pick the subject they are currently studying, find all the “learning goals” for that subject, and then find clips that support each goal.
The site was built by Bouvet, with Ontopia and the Polopoly CMS.