ztm.topicmaps Glossary

Zope
Zope Object Publishing Environment
ZCA
Zope Component Architecture
ZODB
Zope Object Data Base - The object storage traditionally used by Zope to persist object states.
Topic Maps
Topic Maps is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. It focuses on associative and subject oriented knowledge representations as opposed to spatial or computational.
topic map
A topic map is a container for topics and associations between them.
Topic
A Topic is a proxy for some subject in the real world that lets authors and computers make assertions about them.
Association
An association represents a relationship between one or more topics.
Topic Map Data Model
The Topic Map Data Model is
Topic Map Reference Model
The reference model is a more granular model of topic maps. The TMDM is mapped to TMRM.
ontology
By ontology we mean the the types of a topic map.
PSI
See Published Subject Identifier or Published Subject Indicator
PSD
See Published Subject Descriptor
Published Subject Indicator
A webpage describing to humans what subject a topic with a matching subject identifier
Published Subject Descriptor
Newer name for Published Subject Indicator
theme
A theme is simply a moniker for the topics that make up a scope. It is a remnant from earlier standards.

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