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| Developer(s) | Compendium Institute |
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| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/ |
Compendium is a computer program and social science tool that facilitates the mapping and management of ideas and arguments. The software provides a visual environment that allows people to structure and record collaboration as they work through "wicked problems". The software is currently released by the not-for-profit Compendium Institute [1]. The current version operationalises the Issue-Based Information System (IBIS), an argumentation mapping structure first developed by Hors Rittel in the 1970s.
Compendium source code was fully released under LGPL licence on 13 January 2009.[1]
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Compendium visually represents thoughts and illustrates the various inter-connections between different ideas and arguments. The creation of "issue maps" graphically represents the relations between issues and questions and facilitates the understanding of inter-connected topics through pictoral representation. It can be used by a group of people in a collaborative manner to convey ideas to each other using visual images.
Compendium is the result of fifteen years of development in collaborative modelling, however the theory behind the software hails from the seventies, when IBIS (Issue-Based Information System) was first conceptualized by Horst Rittel and Jeff Conklin.
Many associations have thence contributed ideas to the development of Compendium. These institutions include Blue Oxen Associates, Center for Creative Leadership, Knowledge Media Institute - Open University, Verizon, CogNexus Institute, and Agent iSolutions.
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