Topic Maps and Information Architecture

Knowledge Organization

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from <http://journalofia.org/volume2/issue1/02-johnsen/>
relation to FRBR (not perfect, but kind of)

Work = Supertype
Manisfication = subtype
Item = instance

Topic Maps can organize subjects, (concepts), allow metadata to added to topics (instances), organize resources (external) and allow to to "talk" about knowledge by building associations.