Cohere: An action research platform to help us explore the intersection of the Web 2.0 paradigm and sensemaking support through concept and argument mapping. Make the connection between ideas, moving from tag clouds to idea webs...

Screencast: Welcome to Cohere

Descended from the Scholarly Ontologies project, which created ClaiMaker, ClaimFinder and ClaimSpotter

Compendium: The most mature action research platform around which we're developing the Hypermedia Discourse approach is Compendium. This supports real time knowledge construction in meetings, or can be used for personal information management and reflection. This is a robust hypermedia mapping tool that is freely available with a growing community of practice, and developer community. Now integrated with the Moodle virtual learning environment as part of the LabSpace.

Screencasts: Knowledge Mapping Open Educational Resources

Memetic: Memetic is an extension of Compendium's meeting capture capability by integrating Compendium maps with the Access Grid video conferencing system, generating semantically indexed meeting replays. Now you can jump to the point in a meeting replay when a particular argument was made, when a document was opened, or when an agenda item was discussed.

Screencasts: Booking, recording and replaying Memetic meetings

Digital Document Discourse Environment (D³E): exemplfies the Hypermedia Discourse approach applied in a more 'conservative' manner to traditional prose documents and threaded discussions, in contrast to the semantic discourse networks of Compendium and ClaiMaker. D³E is a toolkit for converting a static HTML document into a discussion document with rich navigational hyperlinks, tightly integrated with a discussion forum.

D³E has been used since 1996 at the OU to publish the award-winning, electronic Journal of Interactive Media in Education. JiME pioneered conversational peer review in which multi-disciplinary authors and reviewers engage in non-anonymous debate over submissions, the most interesting aspects of which are co-published with the final multimedia articles.

D³E has been released open source (but is no longer supported). A webtop 'lite' version of the Java desktop publishing toolkit is Ubiquitous-D³E, with a specialised version integrated with the University of Southampton's ePrints Archive Server, as D³Eprints.

Screencasts: Using D³E to publish Web discussion documents