[Zope-CMF] Collective Organization Aspect

Jon Edwards jon@pcgs.freeserve.co.uk
Wed, 16 May 2001 13:57:45 +0100


Hi, I'm a little out of my depth here, but I found the following while
perusing the Python XML SIG.

"Final CD Text for ISO/IEC 13250, Topic Navigation Maps" -
http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0008.htm - links to full text at the
bottom of the page. It seems to cover a lot of the same ground. From the
intro -

"This International Standard provides a standardized notation for
interchangeably representing information about the structure of information
resources used to define topics, and the relationships between topics. A set
of one or more interrelated documents that employs the notation defined by
this Standard is called a Topic Navigation Map (TNM). In general, the
structural information conveyed by TNMs includes:

* - groupings of addressable information objects. Objects so grouped are
said to form a topic (or, are said to share the semantics of the topic).

* - relationships between topics ( associations )."

It's XML, so fits with Zope's wonderful adherence to standards, and there's
a Python project working on it -
http://www.ontopia.net/software/tmproc/index.html

HTH

Cheers, Jon