A new Topic Maps Engine!

I’ve been building a topic maps engine for nearly 2 years. In the last few months I figured that it’s probably about time to actually release a version — 1.0 beta. Here’s a few details:

• It’s coded in ASP Classic — so it’s nice and easy to understand and modify
• It uses MSXML – so its pretty fast
  
• It uses AJAX for edit-in-place of content of topics and adding new relationships to topics
• It has a Web Service for editing topics and displaying topics
• It uses Alex Johannessen’s own topic maps notation that we worked together on while doing National Treasures at the National Library — so representation of the topics in the topic map is simple

You can see the topic map engine in action at: topicmaps.matthew.hodgson.com

I’m trying to get an administration page together to allow better management of the engine when transferred to different environments. That is, to allow it to be plopped into any IIS environment, have its folders/file location specified, the site name, etc, and have it be ready to go. I’ll keep you posted on that front.

If you’ve got any suggestions on how I might continue its development, please give me a buzz. If you’re interested in using it, let me know. It will be available under a GNU General Public License.

Any thoughts?

M

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