Two faces of Topic Maps

• Human

  • Topic (Subject)

    • Names (scoped)
    • Occurrences (scoped)
  • Associations

    • (scoped)

• Machine

  • Arcs

    • association-template
    • association-scope
    • scope-component
    • association-casting
    • casting-member
    • casting-role
  • Nodes

    • a (association)
    • s (scope)
    • c (casting)
    • t (topic)

• Complex models

• Multidimensional, multilingual

• Multiple perspectives

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On the left, the way that humans want to think about the

On the human-centric view, it's topic-centric.

Topics have characteristics that include names, occurrences and associations. On the right side, you have assertion-centric. Arcs should come first. Arcsa and nodes in the same order.