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    Posted by chrismac

    Hi,

    I wonder if a feature could be added to provide Topic Trees, such as collaborative concept maps require, but with HTML pages and HTML Name Tags as the nodes, with links shown as arrows ? To see what I have in mind, follow these links
    http://cmap.ihmc.us/Question
    http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/dlp_CmapTools.php?myPlat=WinQuestion
    and
    http://www.thefullwiki.org/Question - scroll down to topic trees.
    While Categories provide a limited form of this feature it's not as functional as concept/mind maps. The feature can borrow and extend code from Categories perhaps ?

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    Posted by Xavier de Pedro

    Hi.

    See:
    http://doc.tiki.org/MindMapQuestion

    there was no good concept map software released as free/Libre open source software by the time some people needed this type of feature in Tiki, and that's why we took mind maps instead, with freemind.

    cheers

    Posted by chrismac

    Thanks for the tip. While very nice, I find Freemind mind maps a bit limited when wanting to build Topic Trees, as Mind Maps seem to have a central organizing concept from which everything branches out. Topic Trees can have many Topics which branch out. Perhaps a more suitable alternative to Freemind, is the free Ontopia http://code.google.com/p/ontopia/Question . Having installed and looked Ontopia over, it seems to offer more suitable Topic Tree functionality, and I'm wondering if it could be integrated into Tiki as an alternative to Mind Maps ? It would take a lot more skill than I have to do this, so hopefully someone with the skill will pick it up and run with it for us all.😊
    For the Topic Tree rationale perhaps read http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.htmlQuestion
    Home page is http://www.ontopia.net/Question


    Posted by chrismac
    Have you considered Topic Maps of the form that can be downloaded from here for free with registration ? http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/download/download.htmQuestion It would be exceptional if the two types of Topic Maps could be merged into one type for Tiki Wiki, with the best of both sets of features.