The Dutch SGML/XML User’s Group is arranging a full-day course on semantic modelling at Arbo Unie in Utrecht on February 25th. It seems to be held by the company Be Informed, and covers Topic Maps, the Be Informed Product, and RDF/OWL. The Topic Maps tool used for modelling is Ontopia. For more details, please see the official announcement.
Posts Tagged ‘Ontopia’
Topic Maps course in the Netherlands
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Object/semantic impedance mismatch
Friday, January 29th, 2010Lars Marius Garshol has published a presentation on the Ontopia blog about the challenges of building semantic applications in object-oriented programming languages. The problem he describes is similar to that faced when building applications with relational databases, known as the object/relational impedance mismatch.
Everyday Physics on Web
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Motomu Naito and Shu Matsuura at Tokyo Gakugei University have developed a web site for physics students, called Everyday Physics on Web. The site is still under development, but will provide a guide to the history of physics and important concepts in physics. Most of the content is in Japanese, although some is also in English. The site runs on Ontopia.
NRK/Skole
Monday, July 20th, 2009A 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.
tmphoto is released
Sunday, July 19th, 2009Lars Marius Garshol has released tmphoto, an open source web photo gallery application based on Ontopia. This is version 0.1 alpha 2, so the application is still somewhat unpolished.
Ontopia 5.0.0 released
Thursday, July 9th, 2009The Ontopia project has just announced the release of Ontopia 5.0.0, the first open source version of the product.
Ontopia project gathering momentum
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009A kickoff meeting for the project was held last week, and now results are beginning to appear. There is a project blog with a report from the meeting, photos from the meeting, and a mailing list for discussions about the project.
OKS 4.1.0 released
Monday, May 25th, 2009Ontopia goes open source
Monday, April 20th, 2009Bouvet has announced that the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS) will be released as open source on July 1st. Bouvet is inviting interested parties to attend a kick-off meeting on May 26th. For those who want more information there is also an FAQ.
OKS 4.0.5 released
Monday, February 16th, 2009A new version of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS) has just been released. This is a bugfix release, taking care of a number of bugs throughout the OKS. However, it also adds prototypical support for CTM import. This means you can play with CTM in the Omnigator by dropping .ctm files into the topic maps directory.