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The Tao Of Topic Maps
Typed associations between topics
Just as topics and occurrences can be grouped according to type (e.g., composer/opera/country and mention/article/commentary, respectively), so too can associations between topics be grouped according to their type. The association type for the relationships mentioned above are…
Typed associations in a thesaurus
The special thing about associations in a thesaurus (as compared to associations found in a typical index or glossary) is that they are typed. This is important because it makes it possible not only to say that two terms are related, but also how or why they are related. It…
Base names and variant names
The standard therefore provides the facility to assign multiple base names to a single topic, and to provide variants of each base name for use in specific processing contexts. In the original ISO standard variants were limited to display name and sort name. XTM offers a more…