<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7036.0"> <TITLE>Two recent items of potential interest to SCC and to CHM repository infrastructure</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  (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 <A HREF="http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/edoc_management/dlm_forum/doc/17bis_Hofman.pdf">http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/edoc_management/dlm_forum/doc/17bis_Hofman.pdf</A> Best wishes,  Henry -----Original Message----- From: John F. Sowa [<A HREF="mailto:sowa@bestweb.net">mailto:sowa@bestweb.net</A>] 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:     <A HREF="http://cmap.ihmc.us/">http://cmap.ihmc.us/</A>     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@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@bestweb.net> To: INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION GROUP <PORT-L@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     <A HREF="http://cmap.ihmc.us/">http://cmap.ihmc.us/</A>     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:     <A HREF="http://cmap.ihmc.us/Documentation/WhitePapers.php">http://cmap.ihmc.us/Documentation/WhitePapers.php</A> John Sowa </BODY> </HTML>