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Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik: Band XXIV Information Wants to be a Topic Map Sixth International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2010 Leipzig, Germany, September 29 – October 01, 2010 Revised Selected Papers Lutz Maicher Lars Marius Garshol (Eds.) Information Wants to be a Topic Map Sixth International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2010 Leipzig, Germany, September 29 – October 01, 2010 Revised Selected Papers Volume Editors Dr. Lutz Maicher University of Leipzig Institut für Informatik Johannisgasse 26, 04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] Lars Marius Garshol Bouvet AS Sandakerveien 24C D11 NO-0403 Oslo, Norway [email protected] More information about the TMRA conference and the online versions of all papers within this volume are available at the website: http://www.tmra.de/2010 Information Wants to be a Topic Map Sixth International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2010 Leipzig, Germany, September 29 – October 01, 2010 Revised Selected Papers Lutz Maicher, Lars Marius Garshol (Eds.) – Leipzig, 2010 ISBN 978-3-941608-11-5 Preface The papers in this volume were presented at TMRA 2010, the International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, held 30 September and 1 October 2010, in Leipzig, Germany. TMRA 2010 is the sixth conference in this annual series of international conferences dedicated to Topic Maps in science and industry. The motto of the TMRA 2009 conference, “Linked Topic Maps”, was about spinning a global web of interchangeable and linkable topic maps. Linked Topic Maps was about lightweight semantic integration and fusion of heterogeneous sources of structured and unstructured data, based on the integration model provided by Topic Maps. With the Topic Maps 2010 conference in Oslo the first applications of linked topic maps in industry emerged. At the same time the stack of freely available Topic Maps software grew considerably within the last months. The technology is ready for the next level of scale. But scalability needs data. It was Kal Ahmed at the TMRA 2009 conference who coined the motto for this year’s conference: “Information wants to be free. Information wants to be a topic map.” With the TMRA 2010 conference various approaches to make Topic Maps based data available was explored. There is a wide range of means for producing these maps: starting with generic Topic Maps editors, over web portals and domain specific desktop applications, to advanced approaches of exposing data sources as virtual topic maps. Consequently new data sources generate new applications. Which new kind of applications are possible and already implemented? Do these applications require new data sources which are not available in the Topic Maps world today? Generally, all kinds of applications are of interest – the scaling, web-based ones and the applications on the enterprise level. They all have one thing in common: they all need information which behaves like topic maps. The goal of the TMRA 2010 conference was bringing together all the ideas, concepts and implementations which will help to make information accessible and usable in a Topic Mappish way. The paradigm of the TMRA 2010 conference was that everything which behaves like a topic map is a topic map, irrespective of its origin. It’s all about paving the way for global knowledge federation. Stimulated by the success of the previous conferences the concept of TMRA was retained nearly unchanged. The conference was preceded by tutorials@TMRA 2010, a full day of in-depth tutorials. The main conference schedule was separated into two parallel tracks, providing a rich program for all interests. The Open Space sessions, once more smoothly moderated by Lars Marius Garshol, provided a light and exciting look at work which will most likely be presented at future conferences. The “Topic Maps Elevator Pitch Contest at TMRA 2010” was a new feature of this year’s TMRA conference. The participants got the stage for 60 seconds. This was their opportunity to explain the idea and the benefits of Topic Maps to the audience. To win the contest the crowd at TMRA had to be convinced with the pitch. The TMRA 2010 program attracted an international crowd from the Topic Maps community, hosted in the media campus of the Leipzig Media Foundation. The scientific quality of the conference was ensured by the international Program Committee with around 36 members. Out of 39 submissions, 20 were accepted as papers for these proceedings. We would like to thank all those who contributed to this book for their excellent work and great cooperation. Furthermore, we want to thank all members of the Program Committee and especially Prof. Dr. G. Heyer and Benjamin Bock, for their tireless commitment to make TMRA 2010 a success. TMRA was organized by the Zentrum für Informations-, Wissens- und Dienstleistungsmanagement at the University of Leipzig. We thank Anika Jahn for her engagement in the organization of the conference and Peter Scholz for producing these proceedings. Furthermore we acknowledge the generous support by all our sponsors. We hope all participants enjoy a successful conference, make a lot of new contacts, gain from fruitful discussions helping to solve current research problems, and have a pleasant stay in Leipzig. Last but not least we hope to see you again at TMRA 2011. Leipzig and Oslo, Lutz Maicher September 2010 Lars Marius Garshol Organization TMRA 2010 was organized by the Zentrum für Informations-, Wissens- und Dienstleistungsmanagement e.V. (ZIWD) in Leipzig, Germany. Chairs of the Program Committee Lutz Maicher, Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig, DE (Chair) Lars Marius Garshol, Bouvet, NO (Co-Chair) Program Committee Marie-Hélène Abel, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Kal Ahmed, NetworkedPlanet, UK Frédéric Andrès, NII, Japan Michel Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting, USA Arnim Bleier, Topic Maps Lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany Benjamin Bock, Topic Maps Lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany Robert Cerny, Researcher, Germany Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA Ralf Eilbracht, Nexxor, Germany Lars Marius Garshol, Bouvet, Norway Lars Heuer, Researcher, Germany Gerhard Heyer, University of Leipzig, Germany Tobias Hofmann, Researcher, Germany Stefan Kesberg, Nexxor, Germany Aki Kivelä, Grips Studios Interactive, Finland Tomáš Kliegr, Ptague University of Economics, Czech Republic Giovani Rubert Librelotto, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil Stefan Lischke, Researcher, Germany Lutz Maicher, Topic Maps Lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany James David Mason, Y-12 National Security Complex, USA Thomas Neidhart, Space Application Services, Belgium Steven R. Newcomb, Coolhead Consulting, USA Jan Nowitzky, Deutsche Börse, Germany Sam Oh, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Jack Park, Researcher, USA Rani Pinchuk, Space Application Services, Belgium Jan Schreiber, Ravn, Norway Alexander Sigel, Researcher, Germany Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies, USA Kevin Trainor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Johannes Schmidt, Researcher, Germany Stefan Smolnik, European Business School, Germany Thomas Schwotzer, HTW Berlin, Germany Volker Stümpflen, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany Markus Ueberall, Researcher, Germany Gerhard Weber, Nexxor, Germany Organization Committee Lutz Maicher, Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig, DE (Chair) Benjamin Bock, Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig, DE (Chair) Anika Jahn, Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig, DE (Chair) Sponsoring Organizations Networked Planet, Oxford, UK Ravn Webveveriet AS, Oslo, NO Norwegian Computer Society, Oslo, NO Wandora Team, Helsinki, FI Morpheus Kenntnistechnologie BV, Utrecht, NL Mediafoundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig, DE Topic Maps Lab, Leipzig, DE Table of Contents I Topic Maps Frontends AToM2 – a “web database” with Topic Maps Roots ::::::::::::::::::::::: 3 Pavel Gardavský Putting Topic Maps to REST ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 9 David Damen and Maria Patriksson Designing a GUI Description Language with Topic Maps ::::::::::::::::::: 19 Lukas Georgieff II Practical Topic Maps Research Modeling Units of Measurement :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 29 Xuân Baldau Subject Headings make information to be topic maps :::::::::::::::::::::: 43 Motomu Naito Inquiry Optimization Techniquefor a Topic Map Database :::::::::::::::::: 53 Yuki Kuribara and Masaomi Kimura III Information Wants to be a Topic Map Topic Maps for Improved Access to and Use of Content in Relational Databases – a Case Study on the Descriptive Variety Lists of Germany’s Bundessortenamt ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 65 Gerhard E. Weber, Ralf Eilbracht, and Stefan Kesberg IV Optimizing Data Access Spatial Identification of Subjects :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 75 Sven Krosse Defining Domain-Specific Facets for Topic Maps with TMQL Path Expressions ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 85 Sven Windisch and Lutz Maicher X Table of Contents V Investigation Ontology Structure External Schema for Topic Map Database ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 93 Keita Nabeta, Takashi Kojima, Yuki Kuribara, Takashi Yamazaki and Masaomi Kimura Evaluation of Instances Asset in a Topic Maps-Based Ontology :::::::::::::: 101 Petra Haluzová Topic Maps Graph Visualization & Suggested GTM ::::::::::::::::::::::: 107 Rani Pinchuk and Jelle Pelfrene VI Semantic Integration A new approach to semantic integration ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 117 Lars Marius Garshol