TOPIC MAPS FOR MEMORY INSTITUTIONS AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES, 6/12/2009

Catalogs of libraries, archives, museums

• Korean National Library (prototype in implementation)
  
• Danmarks Kunstbiblioteks katalog (prototype not implemented) (Denmark )
  
• The Royal Library (prototype not implemented)  (Denmark )
  
• Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press: http://highwire.stanford.edu/help/hbt/ (it's working, as a browsing aid based on indexing terms)  (USA)

Digital collections in the Humanities

• New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) at Victoria University of Wellington http://www.nzetc.org/
  
• The Swinburne Project (USA) http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/tm4dh/topicmaps/swinburne.xtm
  http://swinburnearchive.indiana.edu/swinburne/www/swinburne/index.html
  
• Auslit (Australia ) http://www.austlit.edu.au/ (Note: it is inspired by Topic Maps but not run by a topic map).
  
• WebKat.hu (Hungary ) http://www.webkat.hu/scripts/webkat
  
• Collections of Finnish National Gallery http://www.fng.fi
  
• Musica Migrans (Germany) http://www.musicamigrans.de/
• Cedeca (Italy. University of Pavia) http://www.cedeca.it/progetto.aspx (note: about 1600 topics and 4000 associations)

• Classical Mythology (USA ) http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/tm4dh/topicmaps/mythology.xtm
  
• Arthurian Legend (USA ) http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/tm4dh/topicmaps/arthurianLegend.xtm
  
• The folklore collection of the University of Athens Greek Literature Department (not online)
  
• The Living Memory (Germany ) (in progress)
  
• Kiasmart (Finland ) ?
  
• Arppeanet (Finland ) ?
  
• Mediateekki & Media Archive (Finland ) (not online)
  
• Assembly Media Gallery 2004-2005 (Finland )  (not online)
  
• Town again (taken offline due to copyright issues) (Finland )
  
• Fish trout, you're out (Australia ) (note: the prototype was a topic map but not the end-product)
  
• Mauritius Collection (Australia ) (a non working prototype).
  
• Korean Historical resources ?
  
• Korean Folk Music (Pansori) Retrieval System (not online)
  

• Topic Maps Presentation Framework for newspaper content delivering (New Zealand, Australia)
  
• OmniPaper (Canada) http://canada.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/omnipaper/

• Halozatos Irodalom (Hungary) http://mekmester.oszk.hu:8080/itm/tmv/index.htm (E-learning application on Hungarian literature for secondary school students created by the National Library of Hungary)
• Picture Australia: National treasures http://nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au/ (Australia )
   (creation of a website for a traveling exhibition)
  
• Potnia (Spain) (a tool for creating subject pathways using TMs, DC, RDF)
• Tema Tres (a tool for creating thesaurus –out of the scope of this thesis though, it is for Information Architecture) http://tematres.r020.com.ar/index.html (Argentina)

Feasibility studies reported in papers or mailing lists (information on conclusions is not available, and it’s not official)

• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). www.diglib.org/forums/spring2007/presentations/nguyen.pdf (USA)
• National Library of New Zealand??
• National Library of Norway??