e it easily
&gt;accessible. We could aid this with the use of Topic Maps.

What is the user community for Topic Maps? KIF is already easily 
accessible: there are many widely available software tools for 
reasoning with it, translating into and out of it, and parsing it. 
Several of these have been in wide use for about 10 years now, and it 
can be written in XML if anyone feels they want to do that.

&gt;What is being suggested has nothing to do with how the ontology is defined.
&gt;There is an issue that 