Situation: Mind mapping related topics at different meetings, each on its own board. We need to combine and blend them into a living, greater mindmap, without killing off (abandoning) the contributing maps. So copy/paste or import from other maps into a bigger map won’t do the job. The different teams may have “ownership” of the work that went into their individual maps.
Indicate or signal transcluded content in a mindmap. “This lives somewhere else.”
“Click here to open these transcluded nodes in their contributing map.”
Some outliner apps, like those by Dave Winer, offer transclusion. Any node in this outline can be included by reference as a node (with its children) in another outline.
Wikipedia uses transclusion too.
Benefits to collaboration:
- Let contributors combine prior art to make a bigger context
- Preserve autonomy of individual and teams contributors in their own maps
- Keep bigger picture maps accurate and fresh as other maps grow
- Improves parallel work by letting teams have smaller focus
