[SCC_Active_Members] Two recent items of potential interest to SCC and to CHM repository infrastructure

[H.M. Gladney]

(1) See the attached note from John Sowa about CMAP as a potential CHM
collection documentation and presentation tool.

(2) Hofman, Hans. 2005. Developments in ISO standards for recordkeeping, at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/edoc_management/dlm_forum/doc/
17bis_Hofman.pdf 


Best wishes,  Henry


-----Original Message-----
From: John F. Sowa [mailto:sowa at bestweb.net] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 7:25 PM
To: H.M. Gladney; Paula Newman
Subject: [Fwd: Collaborative tool based on Concept Maps]

Henry and Paula,

I sent the following note to the PORT mailing list, which is devoted to
collaborative projects (originally Peirce-related).

The Cmap tools can be used to construct graphical maps of any size, in which
nodes can contain images as well as texts.  In particular, one could develop
a Cmap of all the historical computers and software ever developed anywhere
in the world and with links to show images of the ones that are available at
CHM.

The Cmap tools can be used to export any Cmap as a web page or collection of
web pages.  For an example, see their home page, which is itself a Cmap that
was generated by the Cmap tools:

    http://cmap.ihmc.us/
    CmapTools - Home Page

If you would like to talk with some human about these tools, send a note to
Alberto Canas (the N has a tilde in his name, but not his email address:
acanas at ihmc.us).

John

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Collaborative tool based on Concept Maps
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:09:10 -0500
From: John F. Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net>
To: INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION GROUP <PORT-L at LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>

I recently visited the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in
Pensacola, Florida, and I wanted to mention some interesting tools based on
Concept Maps, which may be useful for various projects, including
collaborative efforts.

IHMC is a nonprofit institution affiliated with the University of West
Florida.  The Cmap tools, which are free for anyone to download and use, are
described by a Concept Map, which can be found at

    http://cmap.ihmc.us/
    CmapTools - Home Page

In my 1984 book, I mentioned concept maps as a very simple diagramming
method that could be used to draw informal diagrams as a precursor to
conceptual graphs, and I cited a book by Novak and Gowin as a reference.
Novak is now a professor emeritus, who is still working at IHMC.

The Cmap tools include versions for both desktops and servers.
There are currently about 130 Cmap servers running worldwide.
For collaboration, they support an interesting option:  Whenever two people
open the same Cmap at the same time, the system asks them whether they would
like to collaborate.  If so, it shows the same screen to each of them, and
it opens up a voice connection so that they can talk to one another while
viewing and/or editing the Cmap.  The resulting Cmap can be exported as a
web page, such as the one cited above.

For editing and/or commenting on Peirce's manuscripts (or any other
resources), it's possible to have any document or image anywhere in the
world linked to any node of a Cmap.  That would mean that one could create a
giant Cmap of all of Peirce's writings, each with pointers to submaps that
would contain various transcribed paragraphs and/or images of the originals.

You could draw links that would cross-reference any of the documents in any
imaginable way, add new nodes to annotate the documents, comment on them,
show a time-line of when they were written and/or when anybody guesstimated
they were written.

Following are white papers about the Cmap tools:

    http://cmap.ihmc.us/Documentation/WhitePapers.php

John Sowa

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