Brainstorming Topic Maps Topic Maps - FAQ 1. A set of one or more interrelated documents that employs the notation defined by this International Standard is called a 'topic map'. Linking topics to enable navigation between them, which might result in virtual document assembly, thesaurus-like interfaces to corpora, knowledge bases, etc. Filtering an information set, to create views adapted to specific users or purposes.
Concept maps are an important means of knowledge representation.
People find concept maps intuitive and easy to understand, and they are also amenable to formalization to provide computational services. Concept maps have been used in many fields including education, management, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition, and linguistics. However, the diversity of computer platforms conforming the Internet makes desirable the implementation of portable applications to avoid discriminating computer platforms or overworking on diverging versions for multiple operating systems. This paper describes the implementation of jKSImapper and jKSImapplet, which are portable Java concept mapping tools used as instruments for supporting workgroup collaboration on the Internet and the Web. Topic maps refer to the ISO standard.