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Different views in EPoCH |
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EPoCH Timeline View |
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EPoCH: a structured information space using Compendium
Simon Buckingham Shum
17.07.07
If you are trying to craft a structured information space organising information along different dimensions, then you may be interested to check out EPoCH (Exploring Psychology's Context and History) which we have just published under a Creative Commons license.
The context for this work is the open source publication of an Open University course (exploring the history of Psychology). The Introduction explains the different Compendium views -- see screenshots and links with this story.
Web Map, Outline, and XML versions are available (it was designed to be navigated in Web Map view). The Activities map sets learning tasks.
We are therefore thinking of Compendium as a tool for creating visual information spaces that subject matter experts can learn to use themselves.
EPoCH makes heavy use of custom icons on Maps (to provide the top level navigation bar), Internal Reference Nodes (to jump from the timeline view to a detailed map), and transclusion (the same person, method, theory, etc. can appear in many different views).
Thanks to Ale Okada and Teresa Connolly in particular for the work they've put into this.
This and numerous other Compendium maps are published as part of the OpenLearn initiative, in which the OU is publishing thousands of hours of its distance learning materials on the Web for free use and remixing.
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