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TITLE: Topic Maps: The Inventor's Perspective on Subject-based Access
SPEAKER: Michel Biezunski, Steven R. Newcomb
EVENT DATE: 10/15/2003
RUNNING TIME: 112 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Steven Newcomb and Michel Biezunski both work for Coolheads Consulting, a consultancy specializing in semantic analysis, subject-based information integration, and the actual creation and maintenance of topic maps for clients in government, industry, and academia. Dr. Newcomb spoke about the conceptual foundations of the Topic Maps paradigm. Dr. Biezunski spoke about his vision on what the next step should be in applying the abstract foundation provided by the proposed Reference Model.
Speaker Biography: Michael Biezunski is an internationally recognized expert in the field of information management. He works as a consultant for Coolheads Consulting and is the creator of a technology called Topic Map Loom, owned by Infoloom, Inc., that is used for creating navigable information corpora conforming to the Topic Maps standard. He has a PhD in physic and has worked as a historian and philosopher of science, where he gained experience on how to qualify knowledge. He has written 3 books (in French) on Einstein and the history of modern physics. He participated in the development of the HyTime standard, and is recognized as the inventor of the Topic Maps standard (ISO/IEC 13250), together with Newcomb. Biezunski is coeditor of the Topic Maps standard. Editor and drafter of ISO/IEC 13250:2000 and: 2003 Topic Maps International Standard, also known as "XTM" ("XML Topic Maps"), and of the Reference Model for Topic Maps (2002) Steven Newcomb has a number of roles within the Knowledge Integration and Information Management communities: Editor of the ISO Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language ("HyTime", ISO/IEC 10744:1992 and :1997), and of the ISO Standard Music Description Language (ISO/IEC 10743:1996); CEO of TechnoTeacher, Inc. from 1994-2000 where he developed the pioneering HyMinder, HyBrowse, and GroveMinder implementations of the HyTime standard; and founder and cochair of the "Extreme Markup Languages" conference series of IDEAlliance, now in its ninth year.
Speaker Biography: Steven R. Newcomb has a number of roles within the Knowledge Integration and Information Management communities: editor and drafter of ISO/IEC 13250:2000 and: 2003 Topic Maps International Standard, also known as "XTM" ("XML Topic Maps"), and of the Reference Model for Topic Maps (2002; editor of the ISO Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language ("HyTime," ISO/IEC 10744:1992 and :1997), and of the ISO Standard Music Description Language (ISO/IEC 10743:1996); CEO of TechnoTeacher, Inc. from 1994-2000, where he developed the pioneering HyMinder, HyBrowse and GroveMinder implementations of the HyTime standard; and founder and co-chair of the "Extreme Markup Languages" conference series of IDEAlliance, now in its ninth year (www.extrememarkup.com).
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