XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web

作     者：Jack Park Sam Hunting 

I S B N：(纸本) 9780201749601 

出 版 社：Addison-Wesley 

出 版 年：2002年

主 题 词：Network Programming XML SGML Other Document Mark-up Languages Web Programming Database Administration Management 

摘      要：From the Book: A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the resta kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein, What I Believe, 1930 In a former life, I built microprocessor-based data acquisition systems, originally for locating and monitoring wind and solar energy systems. I suppose it is fair to say that I have long been involved in roaming solution space. Along the way, farmers, on whose land the energy systems were often situated, discovered that my monitoring tools would help them form better predictions of fruit frost, irrigation needs, and pesticide needs. My program, which ran on an Apple II that had telephone access to the distributed monitoring stations, printed out large piles of data. Epiphany happened on the day that a manager of one of those monitoring systems came to me and asked What else is this data good for That was the day I entered the field of artificial intelligence, looking for ways to organize all that data and mine it for new knowledge. A recent issue of a National Public Radio discussion focused on the nature and future of literature. Listening to that discussion while navigating the perils of Palo Alto traffic, I heard two comments that I shall paraphrase, with emphasis placed according to my ownwhims, as follows: In the past, we turned to the great works of literature to ponder what is life. Today, we turn to the great works of science to ponder the same issues. In some sense, the message I pulled out of that is that we (thatUs the really big we) tend to appeal to science and technology to find comfo