Maiana Presentation at Topic Maps 2010 Oslo

Einführung in Topic Maps

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Maiana

Share, mix and explore your data interlinked

Dr. Lutz Maicher & Dipl. Inf. Uta Schulze

University of Leipzig

{maicher,uta}@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Maiana

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Let us give some impressions.

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● Multiple user environment

● Follow users and watch topic maps

● Privacy

● Topic maps are per default not public

● You may share them.

● You may publish them.

Basic features so far

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● Import from different sources

● Export to several formats

● RESTfull URLs, e.g.http://maiana.topicmapslab.de/u/uta/tm/toytm/t/si:http://dbpedia.org/resource/Germany

Basic features so far

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● Invite users to view your maps

● Comment on a map or topics

● Query using TMQL, current and older draft

Basic features so far

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● Validate against topic map schemes

● Embed a topic view using the widget

Basic features so far

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Integrating Subj3ct.com

Virtual Merging

TmBrowse

Linking data and topic maps

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Integration of information from Subj3ct.com

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http://maiana.topicmapslab.de/u/uta/tm/toytm/t/si:http://dbpedia.org/resource/Germany

identifier

information

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Virtual Merging

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wikipedia/dbpedia

PRIVATE

YourTopic maps

Merge

extracting?

difficult

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wikipedia/dbpedia

PRIVATE

extracting

Maiana-Container-

a topic map

• virtual• on demand• read only merging

Reading rights

YourTopic maps

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TmBrowse

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TMBrowse enabled Server(e.g. topicmapslab.de)

Maiana

fragment•list of projects More information occurrence

value: http://www.topicmapslab.de/maiana.xtmtype: http://psi.topicmapslab.de/tmbrowse/mi

fragment

•an instance of project

http://www.topicmapslab.de/projects.xtm

http://www.topicmapslab.de/projects/maiana.xtm

Association: membershipPlayer: Uta Schulzewith more information occurrencevalue: http://www.topicmapslab.de/Daniel_Exner.xtmtype: http://psi.topicmapslab.de/tmbrowse/mi

fragment

and so on

•an instance of personhttp://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Daniel_Exner.xtm

http://www.topicmapslab.de/projects/maiana.xtm

more information to Daniel Exner

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Maiana's technical background

● Ruby on Rails with JRuby

● RTM and TMAPI

● Ontopia Topic Maps Engine, in Memory

● over 10 developers and 1500 revisions

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Marcel Hoyer Michael Prilop Faical Raji

Daniel ExnerArnim Bleier

Sven Windisch

Daniel Seifarth Michael Waldvogel

Thanks to the current developers

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How the Lab uses Maiana today

● Testing/Learning to write TMQL queries

● Communicating data mockups to costumers

● Sharing topic maps internally

● Publishing topic maps to the community

● Widget provider for YACCA

● Validating our topic maps

● Exploring the details of topic maps

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Outlook

● New upload possibilities

● TmBrowse

● Static and Dynamical URLs

● Remote Upload – interesting for Onotoa users

● Editing topic maps

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Outlook

● Watching of subjects and TMQL queries

● Providing to Subj3ct.com

● Full text search

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Please contact us:

[email protected]

Feedback

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Thank you for your attention!