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