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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] ANNOUNCE: Infoloom Topic Map Workshop in Chicago
 The InfoLoom Hands On Topic Map Workshop First Edition: Chicago, 3-4 October 2000 ======================================================== If you want to know ... - What potential topic maps may have for your enterprise, - How other people have implemented topic maps, - How easy it is to make and use topic maps, - Who in your company you should ask to help you deploy topic maps, - How to be comfortable with topic map software, - Where the topic maps initiatives are going, You've come to the right place; this workshop is for you. InfoLoom, Inc. is offering a unique and mind-boggling two-day workshop: - hands-on. You'll be using topic map software that you'll take home with you; you will be amazed to see how easy it is to use. - authoritative. One of the instructors is co-editor of and primarily technical contributor to the ISO Topic Maps standard. You'll get the answers to all your questions, and more. Why you should care ======================================================== The more online information we have available to us, the more difficult it is to find what we're looking for, even if we know it's somewhere on our own hard disk. On the World Wide Web, the situation is even worse: keyword and full-text searches often return an impracticably large number of hits, and, even so, important resources are overlooked because data, rather than information, is what is being searched. "Topic Maps" is an emerging information technology that provides a standard, interchangeable navigation layer above diverse information sources. Topic Maps enable us to organize and retrieve information maps for the Web, our Intranets, etc. -- even print materials. Topic Maps enable their users to retain the value of their indexes, catalogs, thesauri, etc. even when they replace or upgrade their computer systems; Topic Maps are interchangeable. For their owners, Topic Maps are highly exploitable assets. Investments made in creating and maintaining topic maps can pay significant dividends when they are easily reused, merged with other topic maps, etc., independently of the software used to produce and maintain them. This opens huge business opportunities for anyone who owns, maintains, or uses (or who needs to own, maintain, or use) almost any kind of information finding aid, for almost any corpus of information. What you will learn ======================================================== You will start by creating your own topic maps, directly. Once you have become familiar with the fundamentals, you will learn to use additional, easy-to-use features of the paradigm for creating simple but powerful topic maps. You will learn how the Topic Maps paradigm is being applied in commercial Web-based applications. You will learn how the examples relate to the ISO standard. The issues involved in the creation and maintenance of distributed corporate memories, and the usefulness of topic maps in facilitating productive corporate mergers, acquisitions, and "virtual corporations" will be discussed. You will be impressed by the breadth and variety of the scenarios in which Topic Maps can make a significant and unique contribution. Finally, you will receive an overview of the features of the ISO Topic Maps standard, and you will learn how the standard relates to other families of information interchange standards. You will see how topic maps integrate with the ontologies, vocabularies, thesauri, and classification schemas used by various communities (including yours). You will learn how the XTM specification tailors topic maps to fit the World Wide Web environment. Workshop Overview In Brief ======================================================== The InfoLoom Hands On Topic Map Workshop includes: - Create your own topics - Associate topics - Refine your topic map. - Examples and demonstrations of working topic map applications - Go public with your topic maps - Scenarios of use - Overview of the Topic Map standard. - Merging topic maps - Relation to other standards (languages and ontologies) - News about the XTM activity (XML Topic Maps) About the Instructors: The workshop will be instructed by two leading consultants in the XML Industry: Michel Biezunski, co-editor of the ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps standard, and co-chair of the XTM specification, founding partner of InfoLoom, Inc. Dianne Kennedy, chair of the GCA XML Conferences, leading XML industry consultant, founding partner of InfoLoom, Inc. Duration: This is a 2 day workshop. Price: $2,000.00 per person Schedule: October 3-4, Chicago, Illinois To register: Send email to sales@i... ========================================== Michel Biezunski, InfoLoom, Inc. Tel +33 1 44 59 84 29 Cell +33 6 03 99 25 29 Email: mb@i... Web: www.infoloom.com ========================================== 
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