[TopicMapsInLIS] Promoting the list

[Liliana Melgar E.]

Dear Steve,

It's a very good idea.

I am subscribed to some lists in Spanish (IWETEL and ISKO), and to one in
English (NGC4LIB), also to two mailing lists in my country where we can try
to promote the list.

I will send the invitation with the following presentation (in English)
translated. Please if you think that something needs to be added or
corrected, I will appreciate your comments:

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Dear members of the list,

As you probably know, Topic Maps is an ISO standard for the representation
and interchange of knowledge that continues a tradition of indexing or
library languages, like indexes, taxonomies and thesauri. That technology is
being used in web portals and e-learning systems with great success, because
it makes possible a great level of association between the topics or
subjects you want to talk about, to model (create ontologies) very easily,
and to deal with very complex domains and kinds of information and
documents. Topic Maps can also represent the Dublin Core metadata schema and
make it richer and more flexible.

The use of this technology in libraries is starting to be considered by some
librarians, that are thinking about the possibility of implementing it in
library catalogs and/or library portals. There ares some experiences in the
last ones (The Royal Library of Denmark for instance. http://www.kb.dk/en/).


Some of these people interested in applying Topic Maps in libraries created
a mailing list to discuss and inform about new applications and advances in
this issues.

We invite you, librarians and information scientist, or anyone else
interested in this topic, to join the list and to share your ideas about
Topic Maps in LIS!

You can join us in: http://ligent.net/mailman/listinfo/topicmapsinlis

Thank you very much.


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And thank you very much to you too,

Liliana Melgar



2007/11/21, Steve Pepper < pepper.steve at gmail.com>:
>
> Dear Liliana,
>
> Thank you for your enthusiasm for this list!
>
> In addition to asking Suellen and Edward about the survey, I would like to
> discuss how we can promote this list among librarians.
>
> I'm not a librarian myself, and I don't know the community very well, but
> I
> assume there are numerous mailing lists and discussion forums where we
> could
> post an announcement about this list.
>
> Who would like to start the ball rolling? It would probably be a good idea
> to cross-post such announcements to this list so that we can see who has
> been informed.
>
> Steve
>
> --
> Conference Chair, Topic Maps 2008
> Oslo, April 2-4 2008
> www.topicmaps.com
>
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Liliana Melgar
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