From the homepage:
Tribeforth Foundation is a group of people developing and promoting a collective intelligence computer system to assist in stimulating new solutions ideas and connections on a global scale. The system as it is planned is not unlike an every day wiki. The key difference is that millions can speak as one with out losing a voice and the software tunes the conversation into reason. This keeps us from getting lost in syntax and helping us to work with the real semantics.
Heavily rooted in collective intelligence and the semantic web (Web 3.0) we are organizing a collection of open source software and then extending them to create the most high tech discussion platform in human history. Available to anyone, anywhere as a basic standard of living.
A handful of powerful, fundamental principles and values guide us here at Tribeforth. We use these principles to create new tools for all of us
A project built on the principles of self reflection an echo of human ingenuity.
I don’t know if topic maps would be of assistance or not but when you are talking about making connections that persist across semantic boundaries (my words, not theirs), then you are going to need topic maps or something very similar.
I suppose I am a bit old school for the disclaimer:
THE TRIBEFORTH SYSTEM WILL NOT COLLECT ANY INFORMATION REGARDING MILITARY PERSONNEL, SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT, PLANNING OR DEPLOYMENT. INCIDENTS REGARDING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THIS POLICY.
Existing solutions/structures are not going to go into the night quietly. That is a historical certainty. I would rather be prepared for the push back.