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VicGee

Yesterday, @selil (Sam Liles) tweeted:
Oh great Twitter brain. I need a Concept Mapping Applet to run on a website.

I replied "Real concept mapping? Or would mind mapping do? WiseMapping is a free open source mind mapping server that you can install."

Sam replied "I'm looking at doing Novak style concept mapping (expert knowledge elicitation)."

This needs more than 140 characters, so I'm bringing the question to the Mindmappers' Forum. Now read on....

It's easy to find a Novak-style concept mapper - Cmap - but as far as I know, this can't be embedded in a web page as an applet, only as an image. Anyone who can correct me on that, please jump in. Cmap maps on the public Cmap server do support editing by multiple users simultaneously, so you could link an image of the map to a server.

Also the Cmap server is free while it is in beta, so you could, if you wanted to avoid using a public server, set up your own server. I don't know what's involved in that.

What can be embedded, and has the main attributes of Novak concept maps is bubbl.us but I think that is read only when embedded - it allows readers to zoom and move the map around, but not edit it. But it does allow readers to jump from the embedded map to the same map on the bubbl.us site, and once there, if they have an account and the map owners has invited them, they can edit the map.

I invite other mappers to jump in with other suggestions.

Vic (@VicGee on Twitter)
http://www.mind-mapping.org/
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

selil

Well hellowdy!

I'm in the process of doing a study of experts with specific knowledge in a particular domain. Novak has done studies using conceptual mapping of a question from a domain to then generate concept maps. Step one of this is to have experts generate a concept map. So normally I would gather together two dozen experts in a room, but they're experts and as such not available to do this easily. So, the next thing to do is have done on the web. These are experts at their domain but not masters of the information technology universe. So, I need to have them easily be able to enter the concept map data. Now how to embed concept mapping software into a web page. Now just to make it more difficult I have a treatment being applied as part of the protocol and want to overlay that randomly. I can do that with randomized url's but heck if you're looking for gold why not look for all of it.

Sam

VicGee

I think it will be easiest for you to set up accounts here:

https://bubbl.us/

for yourself and the experts start the map, share it with your experts and take it from there. Each can review the concept map and modify it. If you keep the number of maps to three or fewer it's free.

You won't need to embed in a separate web page, just put their email address into the share dialogue and it will email a link to them.

Vic (@VicGee on Twitter)

http://www.mind-mapping.org/

The master list of mind mapping &

information management software

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