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Topic mapping plays several important roles in augmentation of human cognitive capabilities and relational thinking. We summarize three such roles as resource indexing, culture fusion, and modeling. Based on a working hypothesis that combinations of technologies can benefit topic mapping capabilities, we sketch a proposed marriage between Conceptual Graphs and the TMRM variant, Subject Maps. The marriage of technologies is shown to be one of several ways forward for topic mapping.
Keynote address presented to the International Workshop on Topic Maps Research and Applications, Leipzing, Germany, 6 October, 2005.
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Park, J. (2006). Topic Mapping: A View of the Road Ahead. In: Maicher, L., Park, J. (eds) Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape. TMRA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11676904_1
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