Survey of Topic Maps Merging Technology Research
Yingliang Zhao · 2009
Building a structured semantic Web on the layer of information resources,topic maps provide a good semantic model which can make up the existing semantic defects of Web 2.0.As one of the important researches,topic maps merging integrates the same field's partial topic maps into a new topic map.Through the overall topic map,the effective organization,management,integration and sharing of Web information can be easily realized.In this paper,the general steps of topic maps merging and their functions were summarized.With emphasized on the analysis and judgment of similarity algorithm which is the difficulty of topic maps merging,merging principles and strategies were further highlighted,and topic merging process of high similarity was clarified.Furthermore,the overall scheme of conflict detection and elimination was proposed.Topic maps dynamic updating was compartmentalized into several reasonable phases and topic maps merging research directions were also discussed.