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A standard for specifying arbitrary relations between objects. Has standardized machinery for distinguishing the object itself from a web site having to do with the object (i.e. RDF is a standard, and here is a webpage with the spec). Was first conceived as a way to solve the problem of indexing hyperdocuments in an extensible, mergable way.

Quoting DannyAyers: "Things might get messy using the XTM XML syntax directly, but this stuff can already be represented easily in RDF - maybe best through one of the translations of TMs to RDF schema."

http://www.topicmaps.org/

[Topic Maps, RDF, OIL, and DAML] A good paper comparing and contrasting RDF and TopicMaps (and two other formats)
[The TAO of Topic Maps]

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