How did you hear about PCP?
Browsing through the Web looking for work on 'Concept'
and Concept representation.
Please take at least one page to describe your work and how it might relate to
PCP:
I have just started my MSc thesis as an investigation on how to represent and
share ideas using the Web as a medium. Initially my studies have been to look
at Tony Buzans Mind Mapping technique (a paper-based system where ideas are
pictorially represented as words/images radiating from a central image).
Discussions on a Mindmap list (mindmap@marc.cri.nz) led to investigations to
Gowin and Novaks "Concept Mapping". This seems to have had some empirical
support in schools and colleges and is a somewhat weak form of
entity-relationship diagram.
My project is still in somewhat early stages, I have included the initial
proposal.
As I say, this is an early draft and I am searching for some solid theoretical
issues and further ideas. I hope that the Principia Cybernetic Project will
be of use and that my work can be of use to the Project. I would be delighted
should I be able to assist in any interesting tasks.
Cheers,
Martin.
PROPOSAL
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The purpose of this project is to develop an extensible framework for a
Web-based collaborative "mind-map" sharing. Users will be provided with
an editor for the manipulation of these maps and will be able to traverse
them using a view built dynamically for the World Wide Web.
A principal objective is to retain maps in their distributed form, that being
under the control of the author. A possibilty is to provide controlled
redundancy to cater for congested sites. Current opinion suggests that the
mind-map problem would fit well into the object-oriented paradigm.
The project will consist of an editor and CGI scripts to reconstruct the maps
for a Web browser. The editor will initially be separate from the browser and
is expected to be written in tcl/tk. Further investigations will explore the
use of an editor embedded in the browser environment. Likely candidate
systems for this include Sun Microsystems HotJava.
-- *** Martin.Cleaver@ncl.ac.uk CompSci PostGrad, Uni Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ** *** http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~m.r.j.cleaver/ Advanced Masters Student ***