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Subject: Re: [tm-pubsubj-comment] An Unanswered Posting
This is an e-mail I received from Thomas which I felt compelled to share on this list: ===================================================== Scott, as far as I understand you, you want to *merge* both maps. I am not a friend of merging every topic that "has the same basename within the same scope" automatically. This will give poor results. You will need human intelligence. I would start with converting both glossaries into a seperate topic map each. As you have HTML formats you may be lucky to find some encoding style (like using <H1> for the terms exclusively, or similar) that helps you to use XSLT for a conversion to any XML Topic Map encoding. KnowledgeTaxi will contain an auto-classification feature that suggests significant topics for any piece of free text. So I would classify each term-and-definition text of glossary A using Topic Map B and vice versa. The result is a list of associations between the terms of both glossaries. This is just a intermediate result. This can help to find similar definitions in both glossaries/maps, but I am afraid that no tool will be able to replace human intelligence when strategic decisions are needed about which topics could be merged into one. After you have merged both glossaries I would throw away the intermediate associations and run the auto-classification on each term-and-definition text of Topic Map (AB) using Topic Map (AB) which results in a suggestion for associations that should be part of the final topic map. I do not really understand why you want to *convert* this TM into published subjects and build another TM. Why not simply use and extend this TM? KnowledgeTaxi provides an indexing system for information assets. You can run auto-classification on each document and save the classifying topics-IDs with each document-URI, and you can search this list. Hope I have at least answered some of your questions, Thomas Bandholtz XML Competence Center SchlumbergerSema Sema GmbH Kaltenbornweg 3 D50679 Köln/Cologne ++49 (0)221 8299 264 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
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