Shelter.nu : Here is a How to Topic Maps, Sir!: "This is not a tutorial. This is an essay written to be preceding a tutorial I'm writing about Topic Maps and how to Sort your CD collection with it, which in itself will come in parts. The reason for this prelude is two-edged; philosophy vs. real-life;
There is a great deal of philosophy involved in working with Topic Maps. Not in the sense of arguing for extentionalism or purport a theory of when cats die in boxes, but in the sense of epistemology, the philosophy of learning. It is about how we perceive things, how human cognition works, about how we label things, how we categorise and find our way in the vast information layer between our brains and our tools.
The other reason is that this essay was easier to write. Bare with me."
Alex is writing a tutorial on topicmaps that I'm really looking forward to. To start things off, he wrote this article. Check it out.