Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Department Member, Librarianship and Information Science
# Graduate student at International Master in Digital Library Learning
Oslo University College
Thesis Title: Topic Maps (ISO/IEC 13250) and Library and Information Science
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Nils Pharo
Steve Pepper |
About
Topic Maps is an ISO standard for representing information about the structure of information resources (ISO /IEC 13250) whose idea began in 1991 to give a solution to the problem of merging the back-of-the book indexes. It appears then to be a development aligned within the principles of Knowledge Organization (KO) and Information Organization, completely adapted to the context of the Web and the digital environments. However, its relatively new appearance and its origins in a different community (primarily the SGML community, which was concerned with document description languages from the point of view of computer scientists), lead to a need for understanding its principles from an Knowledge and Information Organization perspective.
(This thesis presents such review).









