VUE is a free, open source

Open source

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 concept map

Concept map

For concept maps in generic programming, see Concept .A concept map is a diagram showing the relationships among concepts. It is a graphical tool for organizing and representing knowledge....

ping application written in Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

. The application is developed by the Academic Technology group at Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

. VUE is licensed under the Educational Community License

Educational Community License

The Educational Community License is a free and open source license based on the Apache license and created with the specific needs of the academic community in mind....

. VUE 3.0, 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 3, has added many new features which distinguish it from traditional concept mapping tools. 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

Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...

, expanded search of online resources (Flickr

Flickr

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, Yahoo, Twitter

Twitter

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, PubMed

PubMed

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, etc.).

Release	Date
VUE 3.1.1	16 March 2011
VUE 3.0.2	1 July 2010
VUE 3.0	3 February 2010
VUE 2.3.1	6 May 2009
VUE 2.2	20 June 2008
VUE 2.0	10 April 2008
VUE 1.4	20 July 2005

External links

• VUE's website
• VUE User Forums
• VUE on Sourceforge
• VUE community on Ning
  Ning
  Ning is an online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks, launched in October 2005. Ning offers customers the ability to create a community website with a customized appearance and feel, feature sets such as photos, videos, forums and blogs, and the service layers in...