Developer(s) | Compendium Institute |
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Final release | 2.1.3[1]
/ 21 January 2014 |
Repository | |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
License | GNU LGPL |
Website | Official website |
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 discuss and work through wicked problems.
The software was released by the not-for-profit Compendium Institute.[2][3] The current version operationalises the issue-based information system (IBIS), an argumentation mapping structure first developed by Horst Rittel in the 1970s.[2] Compendium adds hypertext functionality and database interoperability to the issue-based notation derived from IBIS.[2]
Compendium source code was fully released under the GNU Lesser General Public License on 13 January 2009.[4] Compendium can still be downloaded, but is no longer actively maintained.[3]
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