VUE (Visual Understanding Environment)

Infobox Software
name = VUE



caption = Mapping interface of VUE.
developer = [http://uit.tufts.edu/at/ Academic Technology group] at Tufts University
released = July 20, 2005 [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=113315 according to sourceforge]
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = Java
operating system = Cross-platform
language = English
genre = Concept Mapping software
license = ECL
website = [http://vue.tufts.edu/ VUE] VUE is a free, open source concept mapping application written in Java. The application is developed by the [http://uit.tufts.edu/at/ Academic Technology group] at Tufts University. VUE is licensed under the [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php Educational Community License] . VUE 2.2, the latest release, was funded under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The VUE Project

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts UIT Academic Technology is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic networks of digital resources drawn from digital libraries, local and remote file systems.

Releases

Tufts University's VUE development team has coordinated releases of the VUE project. The project's most recent release, VUE 2, has added many new features which distinguish it from traditional concept mapping tools. [http://vue.tufts.edu/forums/topic.cfm?cf_id=8&t_id=197 According to an announcement] made by the VUE team on their forums, new features include: tools for dynamic presentation of maps, map merge and analysis tools,enhanced keyword tagging and search capabilities, support for semantic mapping using ontologies, expanded search of online resources (Flickr, Yahoo, Twitter, PubMed, etc.).

ee also

* List of mind mapping software
* List of concept mapping software

References

External links

* [http://vue.tufts.edu VUE's website]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuftsvue/ VUE on Sourceforge]