On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:05:18 +0100, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > Steve Harris wrote: > > > RDF! (rdf, rdf, rdf, ...) http://www.w3.org/RDF/ > > topic maps! topic maps! topic maps! > > XTM? (XML Topic Maps) > > http://xml.coverpages.org/topicMaps.html IIUC RDF (certainly RDF+OWL) can do everything that topic maps can, is more expressive and is much more widely used. G. Moore, 2001, "RDF and TopicMaps: An Exercise in Convergence" In Proc. XML Europe 2001, Berlin. http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2001/papers/html/s23-3.html - Steve