日本データベース学会の皆様 (重複して受け取られた場合はご容赦ください) (興味のありそうな方に転送していただけるとありがたいです。) ナレッジ・シナジーの内藤と申します。 2008.4.2-4日、ノルウェーのオスロで開催される Topic Maps 2008 の プログラムが決定した旨のメールを転送させていただきます。 よろしくお願い致します。 -------------------------------------------------------------------

The program for this year's Topic Maps Users Conference in Oslo, Norway on April 2-4 2008 has now been published and registration for the conference is now open.

The conference theme is

"Towards the Vision of Subject-Centric Computing"

and the program offers both excellent tutorials and an impressive variety of case studies showing how Topic Maps is applied around the world in different areas. There really is something for everyone!

In addition, great keynote speakers are lined up: David Weinberger, author of "Everything is miscellaneous", and Alex Wright, author of "Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages", as well as yours truly, author of "The TAO of Topic Maps".

Please help us publicize the event by informing your colleagues, announcing it on other mailing lists, linking to www.topicmaps.com/tm2008, and blogging about any presentations or tracks that you find particularly interesting.

Steve Pepper

-- Conference Chair, Topic Maps 2008 Oslo, April 2-4 2008 www.topicmaps.com

------------------------------------------------------------------ Motomu Naito <motom@green.ocn.ne.jp> CEO, Knowledge Synergy Inc. 3-747-4-203, Kusunokidai, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-0037 Japan http://www.knowledge-synergy.com/ phone: +81-4-2993-0519 cell phone: +81-90-4926-1306 Delegate to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 (Topic Maps WG) from Japan