Selim Ernkut wrote:
(Before i even say "hello" to you i will portend that
English is my second foreign language after german, so
if something i write appears rude to you, i apologize
=> i am also using an online english-german dictionary
from "tu-chemnitz" and "altavista babel fish" to
optimize my e-mails)
Hi folks,
first off all I will apologize for my outburst, I
think it happend because I work on an e-mail like my
first one with the topic "teoretical information about
topicmaps" at least 45 minuts because of the language,
and then i get an email from Murray and Miles Thompson
that i am a spammer (I am NOT criticizing you )and i
flipped out. Perhaps you were right. So i apologize if
I was rude to.
Sorry that i have wasted your time and the space of
the mailing list but i hope that the problem is
solved.
( and i used no exclamation mark :-) )
best regards,
Selim Erünkut
Hi Selim,
Good, we've got past all this now. (I've received an email privately
confirming your identity -- thank you very much!). And as I said I
would, I'm happy to apologize for giving you a difficult time, and I
hope you can understand our being wary of spammers. You need not
apologize for not speaking great English -- my German is terrible (I
can pronounce it much better than I can understand it). We'll try
to work around any difficulty you have with expressing yourself in
English.
Now, if you could try to be a bit more specific in what you're
looking for about Topic Maps, we can try to answer your questions.
As a few people have mentioned, Steve Pepper's "TAO of Topic Maps"
is a good place to start, as there are, as indicated, three basic
objects or concepts in Topic Maps: Topics, Associations, and
Occurrences. The graph structure formed by them is the basis of
the way that information can be organized and mapped using Topic
Maps. There are many subtleties, but if you get to the point where
you feel you understand the TAO, you're at least half-way there.
If you come up some specific questions, I'm sure that people on this
list (including myself) will try to answer them.
Cheers,
Murray
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Murray Altheim http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK .
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