Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools (fwd)

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Dear Reader,

Earlier this year at the WWW2002 conference, there was a
surprisingly strong interest in ontologies--structured models
of known facts.  Ontologies have come out of the research labs
and into common use for modeling complex information.

Our main feature this week is a survey of tools available for
editing ontologies.  As part of his survey Michael Denny also
provides a great introduction to what ontologies are, how they
vary, and how they are constructed.

"Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools" can be found at
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/ontologies.html>.

Following up on our recent look at Digital Talking Books, Alan
Kotok reports this week on U.S. legislative proposals to implement
an electronic standard for learning materials: such a standard,
likely to be XML-based, could radically improve the lot of
visually impaired children at school.

Read "Standards for Electronic Instructional Materials" at
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/imaa.html>.

Finally this week, we have the November edition of Bob DuCharme's
"Transforming XML" column.  In this installment, Bob digs into
using <xsl:number> for adding automatic numbering to your document.

Count your XSLT blessings at
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/tr.html>.

Thanks for reading.

Edd Dumbill
edd@XML.com
Managing Editor, XML.com

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*** Featured Articles ***

Standards For Electronic Instructional Materials
A bill proposed to the U.S. Congress seeks to create an electronic
standard for instruction materials that will help visually
disabled schoolchildren.

http://xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/imaa.html

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Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools
Ontologies, structured depictions or models of known facts, are
being built today to make a number of applications more capable
of handling complex and disparate information. Michael Denny
surveys the tools available for creating and editing ontologies.

http://xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/ontologies.html

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Automatic Numbering, Part 1
In this month's Transforming XML column Bob Ducharme explains
the use of xsl:number in handling numbers in XSLT stylesheets.

http://xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/tr.html

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