ztm.topicmaps – Topic Maps engine

ztm.topicmaps is a Topic Maps engine that strives to be compliant with ISO 13250-2: Topic Maps — Data Model (TMDM). It is the most important package of ZTM. All other packages are built on top of.

It is written in Python and as the core engine it is targeted at developers. See the larger ZTM Topic Maps framework for user oriented features.

See also

The TAO of Topic Maps

Introductory article on Topic Maps by Steve Pepper.

Zope Component Architecture (ZCA)

Documentation for the zope.component module which provides ZCA.

Zope API documentation

Automatically generated API documentation for Zope.

Contents

• Development setup
• Basics
• Architecture
• Documentation
• Testing
• Ontology
• Searching
• Importing
• Exporting
• Performance considerations
• Datatypes
• Merging
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Events used by ztm.topicmaps
• API
• ztm.topicmaps Glossary

What is ztm.topicmaps?

ztm.topicmaps is a topic map engine built on top of Zope 3 libraries.

Incorporated code

• URL normalization done by urlnorm from Sam Ruby under Python Licence. See src/ztm/topicmaps/urlnorm.py for details.