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Wikipedia - A Democratic Gold Standard for Topic Maps

Wikipedia – A Democratic Gold Standard for Topic Maps

By Vegard Sandvold on March 23, 2009 | 16 Responses

Topic Maps, an ISO standard for semantic networks, relies on authorities to create and maintain Published Subject Indicators (PSIs), uniquely linking single topics to single subjects out there in the real world. TopicMaps.Org has eg. published indicators for languages and countries. But who gets to claim authority over a particular set of topics? Conflicts... Read More »