Concept glossary Manager - Topic maps engine and navigator

Abstract

The Office Objects Concept Glossary Manager (CGM), which has been designed by the author as a software component of the ICONS system, helps to create, edit and visualize topic maps. Interesting features of the CGM are distributed topic maps processing, user rights management, topic states and versions management, ontology driven generative user interfaces and Topic Maps Script Language (TMSL). This paper also overviews an example application of the component. In the final section some weaknesses of the CGM are identified and possible improvements are suggested. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.