Topic Mapping: A View of the Road Ahead

摘要

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.