Topic Maps

Best Practices in Topic Map Applications for European Government

(Co-presented by Innodata Isogen and TEMIS)

TEMIS and Mondeca are the leading providers of topic maps and text mining solutions in Europe. Working with several government agencies in France, Germany or Italy, they have acquired a great deal of experience in developing topic map applications for government purposes. Rather than focus on a particular example, this webinar will give an overview of the applications of topic maps for government agencies and will illustrate the best practices gathered by TEMIS and Mondeca.

Originally broadcast: Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Moderator: Sia Frees, Manager of Business Development, Innodata Isogen
Speaker: Christophe Beguel, Business Development Manager, TEMIS

Exploiting Topic Maps as a Corporate Knowledge Model

(Co-presented by Innodata Isogen and Ontopia)

To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. The discipline of Information Architecture deals with the modern version of this problem: how to organize Web sites so that users actually can find what they are looking for.

Originally Broadcast: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Moderator: Sia Frees, Manager of Business Development, Innodata Isogen
Speaker: Lars Marious Garshol, Development Manager, Ontopia AS

Untangle Your Information: Four Steps to Integrating Knowledge with Topic Maps

For years, enterprises and intelligence agencies have sought to improve the speed and efficiency of how they share information and knowledge. This goal has remained somewhat elusive, however, because the platforms that exist to deliver such content -- search engines, Web sites, and corporate databases -- are not designed to support an integrated knowledge management strategy.

Topic maps, an increasingly popular standard for knowledge sharing, are emerging as a dramatic new approach for organizations seeking a better way to share, interpret, and respond to the overwhelming volume of available data. By allowing organizations to represent knowledge stored on a wide variety of applications and platforms, topic maps enable different tools to analyze information in ways never before possible.

This webinar will:

• provide an introduction to topic maps
• examine the differences between topic maps and traditional search tools
• outline four steps for implementing topic maps
• describe a successful topic map implementation at a government intelligence agency

Originally Broadcast: Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Moderator: Dan Dube, Director of Business Analysis, Innodata Isogen
Speaker: Chris Hill, Senior Analyst, Innodata Isogen