what are the tools to play with topic maps under zope (or python) ? I saw a ztm project on sourceforge, but there is nothing to download, is it a dead project ?

We have a topic map server at www.gooseworks.org that has a Python wrapper. There are topic maps to browse on that site, and a python CGI script to do the browsing, but I'm not ready to expose that code to public view ;-) Hope this helps! Sam Hunting eTopicality, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-editor: ISO Reference Model for Topic Maps Topic map consulting and training: www.etopicality.com Free open source topic map tools: www.gooseworks.org XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-74960-2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sébastien Georget wrote:

Hi,

Hi, I apologize for the late answer, I didn't notice your post until now.

what are the tools to play with topic maps under zope (or python) ? I saw a ztm project on sourceforge, but there is nothing to download, is it a dead project ?

Not at all. We haven't updated the code on sourceforge since last November, but ZTM is definately not dead. OTOH, it hasn't really been alive as an open source project. ZTM is currently developed and maintained by a Norwegian consulting company called Creuna, and is in production for 8 web portals of various sizes (some fairly high-profile). We would like to maintain it as an open source project, but we have not had the necessarry resources available to get it going. Nor has the project been announced properly to the Zope community (although it has been known in the Topic Maps community). The reason for this is that the install procedure has been "involved" and undocumented. We really want to make it easy to install before properly announcing it. An easy to install distribution has not yet been commercially needed by Creuna, so we have focused on developing advanced new functionality on top of ZTM (which is much cooler than making a distribution :-). All directly open source related work has been relegated to the spare time of the core developers and given other interests this has not been very often. This has pretty much been the situation for the last year. We have made great advances in the capabilities and scalability of the platform, but not on the open source side. I am currently refactoring and cleaning up the codebase with the goal of making it easier to install and make a distribution. Not much work remains, but don't hold your breath. The long term goal for ZTM2 is some form of integration with Plone (if feasable). http://plone.org/development/current/roadmap http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.educational/54 For Zope 3 we will build ZTM3. If you have any other questions or would like to see the latest code, I usually hang out on freenode in the #zope channel. My nick is 'arnarl' Arnar Lundesgaard PS: The only other Zope based TopicMap project I am aware of is Gnowsys which is not based on CMF like ZTM is.