Park, Jack
(2010). Topic merge scenarios for knowledge federation.
In: Maicher, Lutz and Garshol, Lars Marius eds.
Information Wants to be a Topic Map: Revised Selected Papers.
Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, pp. 143–154.
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Abstract
Climate change is a growing concern to humankind, since the dominant view argues for rapid, significant changes in human behavior to avert catastrophic consequences. This is a complex problem, known as a wicked problem. A productive way forward is through creative, critical dialogue. Such dialogue requires new kinds of socio-technical infrastructure. We offer a socio-technical infrastructure, described as a boundary infrastructure, based on improvements to existing and emerging Issue-based Information Systems (IBIS) conversation platforms. IBIS is an emerging lingua franca of structured discourse. We report on a core function in that boundary infrastructure: the topic merge architectures of topic mapping frameworks. We use two scenarios known to exist in our research platform to develop a novel merge architecture that supports virtual merges of topics.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
2010 The Author |
| ISBN: |
3-941608-11-8, 978-3-941608-11-5 |
| Extra Information: |
Sixth International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2010, Leipzig, Germany, September 29 - October 01, 2010. |
| Keywords: |
topic maps; merge algorithms; virtual merge |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Knowledge Media Institute |
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| Item ID: |
23944 |
| Depositing User: |
Simon Buckingham Shum
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| Date Deposited: |
25 Nov 2010 11:29 |
| Last Modified: |
27 Oct 2012 17:29 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/23944 |
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