Standards of Topic Maps

• Community Standards

Besides the ISO standards, there are some community standards.

• Programming APIs: 

•  Java: TMAPI

• PHP: PHPTMAPI

• .NET: TMAPI.NET

• Serialization Formats

•  JSON Topic Maps

• Linear Topic Maps Notation (superseeded by CTM)

• Modeling conventions

•  Normalizing Association cardinality: Many binary Associations are easier to handle than one big association with many roles.

• Directed association names: Directed Names for (bidirectional) associations should be defined as names for the association type topic and scoped with the role type topic of the source role.