Some time ago, I circulated this mailing list with details of C-Link, the search tool we've developed at Bradford which enables you to search a database (currently Wikipedia) for two concepts and produces a map of the relationship between these two search concepts. If you have not had the
chance to try it, please have a go at:
http://www.conceptlinkage.org/
We've had some excellent feedback on the tool. We're committed to take it further - how far and how fast depends on getting in some funding to support our software developer. So we have put together a bid for further development funding. Among the developments we'd like
to implement are:
1. Improvements to the interface.
For example, we'd like to offer better facilities to zoom with the mouse and to pan around the concept map which C-Link produces. We also
want to enable the facility to click on a node to go to the database (wikipedia) page.
2. Work with a variety of databases
Now we have proof-of-concept with Wikipedia, we want to apply C-Link to specific scientific and technical databases. We have tried it on a
citations database and will be able to extend it in that way as well.
3. More support for different educational uses, e.g. case studies and other support materials.
The purposes of this email are:
1. To solicit support for our further work. We have evidence of demand but if you are prepared to send us a one-line email to confirm that
you support this development in your subject area/institution then we'd be very grateful.
2. To see if anyone who has used C-Link with students can give us any further feedback and/or suggestions for specific future development.
Hope to hear from you.
Peter
Peter Hartley
Professor of Education Development
Room 01.60 J B Priestley Building
University of Bradford
BD7 1DP
phone 01274 233293
mobile 07909892677
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