TMQL: Specification Update
The TMQL editors have delivered a new version (PDF) which incorporates all outstanding issues.We have also fixed many small editorial problems and also removed all tracers, i.e. intentional mistakes...
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TM Stack: I Beg To Differ
Every now and then I see typical stack diagrams depicting the standards landscape in TM and in RDF land.While the relationship between TMRM and TMDM is mostly represented correctly, that is, that TMDM...
View ArticleThrowing off Ballast (Part II)
One other thing to get rid of is my ISO involvement.When I got interested in Topic Maps in 2000/2001 I was quickly sucked into this circle of standardization. First only by providing intense feedback...
View ArticleMy Private TMQL
Having decoupled myself from the standardisation process had an extremely beneficial consequence: I could push my own TMQL implementation forward.I commented out some of the cruft which I only...
View Articlelibtmrm2, Another C-library for TMRM
Ever since I met Jan Schreiber in Oslo a while back I had this itch that someone should write a C library for TMRM. Not only to host maps in proxy form, but more importantly to have a fast evaluation...
View ArticlePerl TM 1.46 Maintenance Release
Recently the Perl TM package has started to experience some problems with smoke testing together with some Perl releases.As I do not have the time to track this down properly, I simply take this...
View ArticleI Found(ed a) Religion!
[Beware: Topic Maps ahead.]Once you reach a certain age, you seriously ask yourself whether this has been be all: wealth, fame and many beautiful women.It is the time when you look for a more...
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Post-Modern WebApp Development
Life is full of coincidences: First I followed with interest the Ontopia web dev tutorial, then I had my more-or-less regular "TM brain storming pizza lunch appointment" with Robert (Cerny), keeping my...
View ArticleTempleScript: Subject Locator Patterns
Obviously I managed to send CatBert back into deep depression (he saw that coming, trust me). While he sleeps in his favourite armchair, I can steal back my ideas and tuck them safely away into an...
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Topic Maps Semantic Meshup (Part I)
Hi! CatBert here.Gosh. Robert is soooo easy to play: I only had to show him how a web application can be expressed with my TM based language TempleScript. As expected, he first appeared to be all...
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