1. Topic Maps-driven Websites are Different [email_address]

2. Ted Nelson: Web sites are seen as decorated directories.

3. Our everyday challenge: Build the ideal, hypertext based knowledge portal

4. Existing technology has failed to meet expectations regarding the original ideas of hypertext

5. Obtain new tools that render possible new solutions

6. Topic Maps may be the tool for building these web sites

7. Web sites became copies of technical structures Most of these structures are hierarchical

8. To avoid these shortcomings, someone invented the concept of portlets. Portlets made it possible to place related information beside each other

9. They can be seen as aquariums placed beside each other Looks nice, but there are not necessarily any connections between the content of the two

10. Portlets works fine for stock brokers

12. How is knowledge natively organized? Nobody knows

13. Knowledge is not natively hierarchical Building hierarchies are skills you learn at school.

14. Knowledge is generally understood as concepts associated with each other The same way Topic Maps are built

15. To avoid the shortcomings, content must be separated from presentation

16. from here to here 180 degrees Find the shortest path!

19. Presentation is a visual aid to support the understanding of information

20. Only separation of content and presentation makes innovation possible

21. Seperate content from presentation

22. It should be possible to make different perspectives into the same information.. .. and see the information from different angles

23. Examples of how to make the most out of Topic Maps

24. Postens intranett Norway Post’s intranet

25. Made hierarchical navigation available

26. Utdanningsdirektoratet Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training

27. Subjects Type

30. Entry points

31. Type

34. Høyre Conservative Party of Norway

37. Forbrukerportalen Norwegian Consumer Council.

38. Subjects

39. Assosiatedarticles Questions and answers

40. Assosiatedarticles

41. Automatic classification

43. All these different types of navigation were made possible by using Topic Maps

44. Would you still like to be restricted by traditional Web Content Management systems?

45. We need to see portals as layered architecture, where content is independent of both presentation and the underlying technology structures.

46. Topic Maps is the obvious solution for what Ted Nelson and his earlier fellows were searching for Information architects and interaction designers are not restricted by technical limitation

47. Topic Maps-driven websites are different The barriers are now broken