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This topic map contains information on the 2010 soccer world cup to be held in South Africa between 11 June and 11 July 2010.

The map provides highly networked data on teams, participants and stadiums, as well as to the schedule of all matches, and their results as soon as they become available. In addition, for the participating kickers, information on their clubs, and the countries of their clubs, as well as the number or goals in the tournament is available.

Data is harvested from various sources in Wikipedia, transformed and integrated into a Topic Map.

Characterized by its subject-oriented information architecture, any topic map aggregates all available information around each subject. The software rendering these web pages from the underlying topic map takes advantage of this architecture, and makes all information on a particular subject available at the cost of a single click. It generates more than 4,500 web pages with over 300,000 links.

For an overview on the participants just navigate to the Participants to retrieve a multifunctional table showing persons, their nationalities, their national teams and their roles as kickers, coaches or referees. Enter "coach" in the box for quick text-filtering on the left hand side to reduce the records related to coaches at the world cup.

To find out about clubs and their kickers participating in the world cup, you may click on the menu item Clubs to access an overview of clubs, their countries, the number of kickers participating in the world cup, the names of these kickers, and the national teams they are playing for. Use the text filter on the left and enter "manchester" to reduce the table to the two Manchester Clubs. Interested in ManU? Just click on "Manchester United" to retrieve an overview of their kickers and find that ManU-kickers are playing for the national teams of England, Mexico, France, Korean Republic, Portugal, and Serbia.

If you are interested in the topic "Germany" you may try the semantic search functionality provided with the search box to the right. For "germany" you get several dozens of themes listed, together with their type, and information causing the hit. Due to the latter you will understand why a search for Germany also retrieves the company adidas as the sponsor of the German team. Each search also retrieves a short list of categories for the topics found. E.g. the search for "germany" finds topics such as "person", "club" or "group match". You can use these categories to further specify your interest, and quickly reduce the list of retrieved topics.

The topic map on the 2010 soccer world cup and the web application rendering the web pages you are currently browsing make the maze of information about this mega event transparent and navigable in an efficient and intuitive way. Try it out - so you know.