Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape

Abstract

Topic mapping plays several important roles in augmentation of humancognitive capabilities and relational thinking. We summarize threesuch roles as resource indexing, culture fusion, and modeling. Basedon a working hypothesis that combinations of technologies can benefittopic mapping capabilities, we sketch a proposed marriage betweenConceptual Graphs and the TMRM variant, Subject Maps. The marriageof technologies is shown to be one of several ways forward for topicmapping.