Posts Tagged ‘tools’

ctm-writer

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

The Topic Maps Lab has started a Google Code project for a CTM exporter called ctm-writer based on TMAPI 2.0, with some advanced features like handling prefixes and template declarations. The code is not yet released, but the source code in Mercurial looks fairly complete, and there is even documentation and unit tests.

TMAPI 2.0.1 released

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

The TMAPI project has released TMAPI 2.0.1, which makes no changes to the API from version 2.0, but adds

  • OSGi support,
  • more test cases for variant names, and
  • some fixes to the javadoc.

Topincs 4.1.0 released

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Robert Cerny has released version 4.1 of Topincs, a Topic Maps-based wiki and knowledge management tool.

This version allows ordering of fields on topics, adds some Topincs-specific constraints to TMCL, and improves the Admin page.

For more information, please see the announcement.

Topic Maps engine in JavaScript

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Jan Schreiber has released the first preview of a Topic Maps engine written in JavaScript, called tmjs. It’s a lightweight engine independent of other JavaScript libraries and offers a TMAPI 2.0-like API. The idea is to make it possible to write Topic Maps applications that run entirely in the browser.

PHPTMAPI 2.0 released

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The PHPTMAPI project has released version 2.0 of the API, following the release of TMAPI 2.0. The QuaaxTM Topic Maps engine already implements version 2.0 of the API.

Topincs 4 released

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Robert Cerny has released version 4 of his Topincs Topic Maps-based wiki and knowledge management tool. A major change in this version is that it now uses TMCL (according to the latest draft) to represent the topic map schema. As far as we are aware, this is the first TMCL implementation to be released. For more information, please see the announcement.

TMAPI 2.0 released

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

After several years of development TMAPI 2.0 is now released. It is thus now the de-facto standard Topic Maps API for Java. The only Java implementations of it so far are Ontopia and tinyTiM, but there is hope that the current 1.0 implementations will be ported to 2.0 in the near future.

hypergraphdb

Monday, February 1st, 2010

HypergraphDB is a hypergraph database based on the Berkeley DB released as open source by Kobrix. Interestingly, HypergraphDB contains a Topic Maps implementation based on HypergraphDB conformant with Java TMAPI 1.0.

Object/semantic impedance mismatch

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Lars 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.

nexxor releases topicWorks 1.0

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

nexxor GmbH released version 1.0 of topicWorks, their Topic Maps-based information management system. topicWorks contains a core engine, a browser, a search tool, a graphical visualizer, Microsoft Office integration, and domain-specific modules. For more information, see their web site.