Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems



Here is a short (30 minute) Basic Tutorial to help you get started with Compendium.

Word Outlines from Compendium - The Tutorials!
We have been working for years (literally) to develop an easy way to turn  a Compendium map into a Word outline.
Download the PDF Tutorial here.
Video Tutorial, Part 1: Setting up Word (running time 3:28)
Video Tutorial, Part 2: Exporting to Word Outline (running time 3:23)
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What is Compendium?

Compendium was initially developed in Verizon research labs as a next generation version of the QuestMap product, which provided software support for the widely recognized IBIS methodology (Issue-Based Information System), as embodied in Dialogue Mapping by CogNexus Institute. Compendium is a powerful Open Source tool offered by the
It's free!! The major addition is an advanced tagging interface, plus numerous other enhancements to improve how you manage, visualize and share your information spaces. If you need to do Outline exports, use the Alpha4 version (below).

Same great, stable software as 1.5.2, but does a better job of exporting Outlines. It also fixes a serious bug with deleting maps from lists, and fixes Web Maps so that they export properly to Firefox 3.
Read more about Compendium.
Demo screencast ...

This is an introductory movie to Compendium, set in the context of the ECOSENSUS project which is integrating a GIS tool to support participatory environmental decision-making between UK researchers and Amerindians in Guyana.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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