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ZTM Topic Maps Glossary

Association

An association represents a relationship between one or more topics.

Cascading Style Sheets

A style sheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language.

Content Management System

A software application designed for creating, storing, managing, formatting and presenting content. We mostly refer to CMSs for presentation on the web.

CMS

See Content Management System

CSS

See Cascading Style Sheets

ECMAScript

The standardised version of what is commonly known as Javascript. ECMAScript is the programming language that is built in to most modern web browsers.

Graceful degradation

Degradation generally means that a system continues to operate, but provides a reduced level of service rather than failing completely.

Graceful degradation in this web-context mostly means that your Web site continues to operate even when viewed with less-than-optimal software in which advanced effects don’t work.

From Fluid Thinking, by Peter-Paul Koch

ISO Topic Maps

Topic Maps is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. It focuses on associative and subject oriented knowledge representations as opposed to spatial or computational. This uppercase version is used when discussing the standard.

Javascript

See ECMAScript

Python

Primary programming language used by ZTM and Zope

Topic

A Topic is a proxy for some subject in the real world that lets authors and computers make assertions about them.

topic map

A topic map is a container for topics and associations between them. This version is used when discussing a particular or single topic map.

topic maps

Pluralisation of topic map objects. Not referring to the standard.

Topic Maps

Short for ISO Topic Maps

Topic Maps Data Model

The Topic Map Data Model is the traditional way to represent TMRM.

Topic Maps Reference Model

The reference model is a more granular model of topic maps. The TMDM is mapped to TMRM.

TMDM

See Topic Maps Data Model

TMRM

See Topic Maps Reference Model.

TMCL

See Topic Maps Constraint Language

Topic Maps Constraint Language

A proposed schema language for topic maps.

TMQL

See Topic Maps Query Language

Topic Maps Query Language

A proposed query language for topic maps.

ZCA

Zope Component Architecture

ZODB

Zope Object Database - The object storage traditionally used by Zope to persist object states.

Zope

Zope Object Publishing Environment