Re: Converting (people) to RDF

The idea of halting global terrorism using the power of Topic > Maps […] seemed ludicrous to me

Well, quite frankly I thought the same, back in 2002. Today, however, the Amsterdam police is about to put into production a Topic Maps-based system for tracking criminals (some of whom are also terrorist suspects). So maybe it wasn’t so silly, after all.

In fact, the number of commercial applications (meaning applications which are paid for by real customers and solve some real business problem for those customers) of Topic Maps just keeps increasing. Portals, especially, are a big area, but there are many other applications as well.

So while I can’t show you many real, deployed uses of RDF (they could well exist, but I don’t know where) there are certainly lots of uses of Topic Maps. Would that do?

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