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Visualisation tools resource list, Anthony Judge and Nadia McLaren
Source: Complementary Knowledge Analysis / Mapping Process, April 2006, Proposal for Dropping Knowledge Event (Berlin, 9 September 2006) by Anthony Judge and Nadia McLaren. Also published in modified form in Statistics, Visualizations and Patterns (Vol 5 of the Yearbook of International Organizations, Munich, K G Saur Verlag, 6th edition, 2006/2007, as section 10.1.3). http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/dropknow.php
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:
- 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
- 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%20Overview%20White%20Paper%20v2.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/10x10.html)
- Blinkx .TV (http://www.blinkx.tv/): searching 1 million hours of TV
- etc
Project coordinator: Richard Tanter
17 May 2008
