Topic Maps 2010 presentations

At the Topic Maps 2010 conference last week there were several presentations that were directly relevant to Ontopia. Below is a list, with links to the ones for which slides have been published:

Experiments in Linked Data

Lars Marius Garshol’s presentation on his experiments with using Ontopia to implement Linked Data across a number of private applications.

Bergen Kommune Redesign

Synnøve Kleive’s presentation on the problems with the interaction design at the City of Bergen project, and what they did to fix these problems. In Norwegian.

Semantic mashup with Subj3ct.com and Topic Maps

Presentation by Reidar Bratsberg and Graham Moore, showing how they mashed up learning resources from two different sites using the Norwegian national curriculum (which is published as a topic map). Source data from an Ontopia-driven site was loaded into Ravn’s Topic Maps engine.

Making topic maps from Subject Headings for linking and organizing information

Motomu Naito’s presentation on …

Aranuka – A POJO to Topic Maps mapping library

Hannes Niederhausen and Christian Haß presented their Aranuka data binding tool, which works with Ontopia.

Maiana – Share, mix and explore your data interlinked

Lutz Maicher and Uta Schultze presented the Maiana Topic Maps browser, which uses Ontopia as its backend. There was also a short presentation on Yacca, which uses Maiana.

Upcoming Ontopia events

The upcoming Topic Maps 2010 conference in Oslo on April 14-15 will feature a number of Ontopia-related presentations. There is a full-day Ontopia tutorial during the tutorial day, and also a half-day tutorial on using Ontopia with Ruby on Rails. There are also a number of Ontopia-related presentations during the conference itself.

The week before there will also be a meeting about Ontopia held by the Norwegian Java User’s Group in Grimstad, in southern Norway, on April 7th.