Federation Process (Federate)
A process in which information resources are "brought together" without filters, and organized in such a way that they form a map of the territory for which each resource is a associated.
In the case of Knowledge Federation, the root concept of this project, federation processes entail these kinds of functions:
- Topic-centric organization of all resources
- Harvesting of each resource for several purposes, including but not limited to
- Detection of same subject aboutness, which leads to merging and maintenance of the subject-centric aspect of topic mapping
- Deeper harvesting in terms of various forms of discovery, including but not limited to
- Literature-based discovery
- detecting un-connected dots
- detecting contradiction
- detecting processes
- Process modeling