| | 1 | The [[DeepaMehta]] Webclient is based on the concept of Topic Maps. Topic Maps is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. A topic map represents information using: |
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| | 3 | * Topics - representing any concept, from people, countries, and organizations to software modules, individual files, and events, |
| | 4 | * Associations - representing hypergraph relationships between topics and |
| | 5 | * Occurrences - representing information resources relevant to a particular topic (like e.g. the location of a topic in a geo-map or relevant associations to other topics). |
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| | 7 | So the simpliest topic map looks like this: |
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| | 9 | {{{ |
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| | 11 | Association |
| | 12 | O ---------------------- O |
| | 13 | Topic A Topic B |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | }}} |
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