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

A Simple KR Example

KR is a key issue in enterprise knowledge management applications, for example, a corporate memory. Thus, the example used throughout this chapter comes from this application domain.

Here's the scenario. A company runs a couple of projects they provide to customers. The project team members, one of whom is the project manager, have certain technical skills. Every project uses a couple of technologies, for example, specific products or standards. Based on this information, the topic map will contain the following classes.

Topic classes (all defined as topics):

• Company

• Owner

• Employee

• Customer

• Project

• Project manager

• Team member

• Technology

• Product

• Standard

Association classes and their roles (all defined as topics):

• Ownership (owner, company) ...