the paper steven newcomb and michel biezunski presented en barna: A Draft Reference Model for ISO 13250 Topic Maps

newcomb (audio/mpeg, 634 KB) 2002 at the xml-europe conference in barcelona.

information on oasis about topic maps: xml cover page

steve newcomb 1995 about ontologies: So "where's the beef -- er, I mean `content'?" I think it's all around us, in the form of ordinary documents, just waiting to be connected together and then to participate in some sort of emergent phenomenon. Now that HyTime gives us the ability to address it all (and therefore to make arbitrary links among all of its components and subcomponents), we can start experimenting with such things as handwritten domain-specific ontologies, and more automatic approaches using classifier systems and genetic algorithms that will operate in the realm of ideas.

about the roots of markup languages and <xml>.