[topicmapmail] Collaborative construction of TMs

[Alexander Nakhimovsky]

Suppose someone constructs an Architecture Topic Map with information on 
famous buildings (architect, style, date built) including La Scala. Let's 
assume that the topic IDs for famous opera houses are the same as in the 
Italian Opera topic map. (I'm actually not sure that this is relevant to my 
question, but just in case.) How would one integrate the information of the 
Architecture TM into the Opera TM short of merging the two?

I tried to think of an example of orthogonal TMs, with non-overlapping sets 
of properties. My primary interest is procedural: how would one assign 
orthogonal topic maps to different teams and then integrate their work?

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