Everything about Topic map
Knowledge organization system
A topic map is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. Topic maps were originally developed in the late 1990s as a way to represent back-of-the-book index structures so that multiple indexes from different sources could be merged. However, the developers quickly realized that with a little additional generalization, they could create a meta-model with potentially far wider application. The ISO/IEC standard is formally known as ISO/IEC 13250:2003. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Topic mapA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Topic mining and forecasting on patent map for GPU technologyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Historical atlasThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Map of science with topic modeling: Comparison of unsupervised learning and human‐assigned subject classificationCited 125 times
- Go sideways: Resource Description FrameworkA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Common LogicA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A representation of knowledge consisting of a graph of topics (representing any concept, from people, countries, and organizations to software modules, individual files, and events), associations (which represent the relationships between them), and occurrences (which represent relationships between topics and information resources relevant to them).
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Map of science with topic modeling: Comparison of unsupervised learning and human‐assigned subject classification
Analyzing Meaning in Big Data: Performing a Map Analysis Using Grammatical Parsing and Topic Modeling
A survey on trends of cross-media topic evolution map
Adapting topic map and social influence to the personalized hybrid recommender system
Navigating haystacks and discovering needles: Introducing the new topic map standard
A distributed knowledge management infrastructure based on a Topic Map grid
Distributed Knowledge Integration Based on Intelligent Topic Map
HyO-XTM: a set of hyper-graph operations on XML Topic Map toward knowledge management
🆕 Influential since 2022
Topic mining and forecasting on patent map for GPU technology
Using a topic model to map and analyze a large curriculum
The ‘Spiritual’ and the ‘Religious’ in the Twittersphere: A Topic Model and Semantic Map
Creating a Topic Map for representing Network Security Competencies
Climate change and water-related diseases: a bibliometric, knowledge map, topic modeling, and content analysis
📚 Books worth reading
Historical atlasWilliam R. Shepherd · 1911
The Oregon question .Gallatin, Albert · 1846
Understanding mapsJ. S. Keates · 1982- 📕The national atlas of the United States of AmericaUnited States Geological Survey · 1970
A Syllabus of Modern European History, 1500-1919 ...Herbert Darling Foster, Frank Maloy Anderson · 1919
The island of lost mapsMiles Harvey · 2000
Rethinking mapsMartin Dodge, Rob Kitchin · 2009
A handbook of biological illustrationFrances W. Zweifel · 1961
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