Managing Literature References with Topic Maps

Robert Barta, Assoc. Prof., IT School, Bond University, Robina, 4226. Email: rho@bond.edu.au

Keywords

Topic Maps, References, Ontology

Abstract

This use case shows how Topic Map (TM) technologies can be used consistently for knowledge engineering in the field of literature references. For demonstration we introduce a family of notations, AsTMa*, which allows us not only to capture factual information with TMs but also let us define an appropriate ontology. To benchmark a TM query language we consider a simple application which converts literature references stored in TMs into the BIBTEX format.