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topic maps
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Topic Maps
Topic Maps is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. Topic maps were originally developed in the late 1990s as a way to represent back-of-the-book index structures so that multiple indexes from different sources could be merged. However, the developers quickly realized that with a little additional generalization, they could create a meta-model with potentially far wider application. The ISO standard is formally known as ISO/IEC 13250:2003. A topic map represents information using ⁕topics, representing any concept, from people, countries, and organizations to software modules, individual files, and events, ⁕associations, representing hypergraph relationships between topics, and ⁕occurrences representing information resources relevant to a particular topic. Topic Maps are similar to concept maps and mind maps in many respects, though only Topic Maps are standardized. Topic Maps are a form of semantic web technology, and some work has been undertaken on interoperability between the W3C's RDF/OWL/SPARQL family of semantic web standards and the ISO's family of Topic Maps standards. The semantic expressivity of Topic Maps is, in many ways, equivalent to that of RDF, but the major differences are that Topic Maps provide a higher level of semantic abstraction and allow n-ary relationships between any number of nodes, while RDF is limited to triplets.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of topic maps in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of topic maps in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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