Topic Maps are means for representing sophisticated, conceptual indexes of any information collection for the purpose of semantic information integration. To properly fulfil this purpose, the generation of Topic Maps has to base on a solid theory. This paper proposes the Observation Principle as the theoretical fundament of a future scientific discipline Topic Maps Engineering. SemanticTalk gen...

In dieser Untersuchung werden die drei Lokalen Suchmaschinen Google Maps, Bing Maps und TOnline Maps in einem kombinierten Eye-Trackingund Usability-Test verglichen. Es zeigen sich sowohl Probleme bei der Benutzung einzelner Suchmaschinen als auch übergreifende Ergebnisse, die für die Gestaltung von kartenbasierten Suchmaschinen relevant sind. Wir geben Empfehlungen für die Gestaltung solcher S...

In this thesis, we have proposed ACTOM, a Topic Map building approach based on an automated processtaking into account multilingual documents and Topic Map evolution according to content and usage changes.To enrich the Topic Map, we are based on a domain thesaurus and we propose to explore all potentialquestions related to source documents on order to represent usage in the Topic Ma...

Many documents and more generally many resources are produced or used in an e-learning application. In order to capitalize these resources and to facilitate their access, we propose to organise them in a “learning organisational memory” (MEMORAe project). In this paper, we present the context of use, the needs and the contents of this memory. We describe the ontologies and the Topic Maps formal...

Nowadays, data handled by an institution or company is spread out by more than one database and lots of documents of different types. To extract the information implicit in that data, it is necessary to pick parts from those various archives. To obtain a general overview, those information slices should be gather. Different approaches can be followed to achieve that integration, ranging from th...

This paper describes the digitization and utilization of Complete Map of Peking, Qianlong Period, which is the oldest measured map of Beijing made about 250 years ago. We first proposed the geometric correction method called “linepreserving distance weighting method” to preserve linear features relevant in the old map of cities. Next we improved the reliability of the old map as information inf...

In E-Learning, the selection of the pedagogical contents to teach and the organization of this content are two principal operations during the design of a course. The growth and the diversity of the informational resources used generate problems of diffusion, access, of classification and management. With the MEMORAe project, we deal with these problems and propose to answer them by using an on...

Bing Han1,2,3, Karsten Köhler2, Kerstin Jungnickel3, Robert Mettin2, Werner Lauterborn2 and Alfred Vogel3,† 1Laser–Material Interaction Lab, Advanced Launching Co-innovation Center, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, #200 Xiao Ling Wei, 210094 Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China 2Christian Doppler Laboratory on Cavitation and Micro Erosion, Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Universität Götting...

This paper explores the idea of using contexts to support more efficient information search in Topic Maps-based digital libraries. The notion of context is perceived as abstraction of grouping of domain concepts and resources based on the existing semantic relationships between them. The proposed model of context is used for context representation in the TM4L environment.