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A Plague o' Both Our Houses?

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Topic Maps and the Semantic Web
Introducing RDFTM
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/RDFTM/

 

Steve Pepper

Chief Strategy Officer, Ontopia

<pepper@ontopia.net>

Steve Pepper – "The Topic Maps guy"

Ontopia – "The Topic Maps Company"

"Two households, both alike in dignity..."

 
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RDF and Topic Maps have many similarities...

...and this naturally led to calls for unification

There are also significant differences...

More differences...

Time to move beyond rivalry

RDFTM: "What's in a name?"

"Parting is such sweet sorrow"

Questions?