About Topic Maps
- Ontology
- A model for describing the world that consists of a
set of types, properties, and relationship types. Ontologies in
computer science came out of artificial intelligence, and have
generally been closely associated with logical inferencing and
similar techniques, but have recently begun to be applied to
information retrieval.
- Topic maps
- A subject-based classification technique. Topic
maps are organized around topics, and each topic is used to
represent some real-world thing. In topic maps, three
constructs are provided for describing the subjects represented
by the topics: names, occurrences, and associations.