Resources

Stephen Davies, Javier Velez-Morales & Roger King. Building the Memex Sixty Years Later: Trends and Directions in Personal Knowledge Bases. 2005

Resources on mind mapping packages, include:

• Checklists:
•  http://www.mindmap.ch/software.htm
• FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/): free, opensource
• MindManager (http://www.mindjet.com/eu/): commerical, Windows
• MindMapper (http://www.mindmapper.com/)
• VisualMind (http://www.visual-mind.com/)
• MindGenius (http://www.mindgenius.com/): commercial, Windows
• BrainMine (http://www.neuralmatters.com/): commercial, Windows
• NovaMind (http://www.nova-mind.com/): commercial, Mac
• DeepaMehta (http://www.deepamehta.de/install/client/): networked semantic desktop
• MyMind (http://www.sebastian-krauss.de/software/), shareware, Mac
• i2Brain (http://www.i2brain.com/) Java
• ConceptDraw MindMap (http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/mindmap/main.php): Mac Windows
• Inspiration (http://www.inspiration.com/home.cfm): commercial,  crossplatform

Resources on concept mapping include:

• Concept mapping website (http://ltsnpsy.york.ac.uk/conceptmapping/conceptmapping/html/software.html)
• ConceptMapping Wiki (http://wiki.conceptmapping.org/Welcome/WebHome)
• Knowledge Manager (http://www.knowledgemanager.it/KM-Hyperseries-eng.htm): commercial, PC, Mac
• Decision Explorer (http://www.banxia.com/): commercial, PC
• The Brain (http://www.thebrain.com./): commercial, PC

 Resources on network visualization include:

• Network visualization resources
  • http://www.caida.org/funding/internetatlas/viz/viztools.html)
  • http://www.netvis.org/resources.php
  • http://www.insna.org/INSNA/soft_inf.html
  • http://connectedness-swicki.eurekster.com/%22network+visualization%22/
• Network Vizualization community (http://networkviz.sourceforge.net/)
• Graph Interface Library-GINY (http://csbi.sourceforge.net/)
• TouchGraph (http://www.touchgraph.com/index.html)
• HyperGraph (http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/)
• 3D-VRML (http://vrmlgraph.i-scream.org.uk/)
• WilmaScope is a Java3D application which creates real time 3d animations of dynamic graph structures (http://www.wilmascope.org/)
• Pajek: large network analysis (http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/)
• NetDraw (http://www.analytictech.com/netdraw.htm)
• Netmap (http://www.netmapanalytics.com/; http://www.goldenmean.com.au/Documents/Netmap-Overview-White-Paper-v2.pdf)
• prefuse (http://prefuse.sourceforge.net/): a Java-based toolkit for building interactive information visualization applications.
• Walrus (http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/): is an opensource tool for interactively visualizing large directed graphs in three-dimensional space 

Use of text analysis / theme abstracting packages: To alleviate the task of the concept analyzers, consideration could be given to the use of packages such as:

• Checklist of Text Summarization Projects (http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan/summarization/projects_full.htm)
• Examples:
• Libextractor (http://gnunet.org/libextractor/) extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type
• Automatic Keyword Extraction  process (AKE)
• The iJoomla Metatag Generator, which supports current SEO efforts, manages metatags and generates metatag descriptions and keywords.
• Michael J. Giarlo: A Comparative Analysis of Keyword Extraction Techniques (http://staff.washington.edu/leftwing/papers/596.pdf)
• Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic: Visualization of News Articles
• NewsMap (http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/index.cfm)
• Ten By Ten (http://www.tenbyten.org/10×10.html)
• Blinkx .TV (http://www.blinkx.tv/): searching 1 million hours of TV
• etc

Project coordinator: Richard Tanter
17 May 2008