Hello, I'm pleased to announce the second release of tmproc, a Topic Map processor. This release is updated according to the final standard. Suggestions and bug reports should be sent to: grove@ontopia.net Enjoy! Geir O. Grønmo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: tmproc Version: 0.21 Released: October 3rd 2000 Author: Geir O. Grønmo, grove@ontopia.net Homepage: http://www.ontopia.net/software/tmproc - -- >>> What's new? o New package structure. o Several bugfixes - -- >>> What is tmproc? tmproc is an implementation of the new international standard ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps[2]. tmproc is written in Python, and should work on any platform to which Python have been ported - including the Java Platform. - -- >>> What are Topic Maps? 'Topic Maps' is a new international standard (ISO/IEC 13250) for layering multidimensional topic spaces on top of information assets. The standard covers concepts like topics, associations, occurrences and facets/metadata. Topic Maps are expected to have a major impact on future information systems. - -- >>> Features o Import, export, query and manipulation of topic maps. o Full set of extensible topic map classes with clearly defined interfaces. o Optional architectural processing [requires xmlarch]. o Introduction and reference documentation. o Statistical and information printing classes o Command line utility for interactive exploration - -- >>> Requirements - Python 1.5.1 or newer [3] - An SGML/XML parser with a SAX driver - SAX for Python [4] - xmlarch 0.25, optional unless architectural processing is needed [5] - -- >>> Licence tmproc is free for both non-commercial and commercial use. Redistribution of tmproc in commercial products requires another licence. See [*] for detailed licence information. - -- >>> References [1] http://www.jpython.org/ [2] http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/SC34/ [3] http://www.python.org/ [4] http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~larsga/download/python/xml/saxlib.html [5] http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/xmlarch/index.html [*] http://www.ontopia.net/software/tmproc/license.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------

tmproc 0.21 - A topic map engine. Topic Maps is a new international standard (ISO/IEC 13250:2000) for layering multidimensional topic spaces on top of information assets. (03-Oct-2000)