Multipane browser to offer choice. The idea of mSpace is that by supporting in context and user-dertermined organization of information, we may be able to build new knowledge, ask new kinds of questions that aren't always readily expressable for a search engine. http://mspace.fm/ helps people build knowledge from exploring relationships in information, by offering several powerful tools for organizing an information space to suit a person's interest: slicing, sorting, swapping, infoViews and preview cues. While the use of a multipane browser is not in itself new, the operations available on it, slicing, sorting, swapping, adding, subtracting, detail view at each element for each category, is.
InfoViews ( Lots of information. One window) ; idea here is that people get a lot of associated information in one window. No clicking through openning and closing a menagerie of links and windows, trying to remember what goes with what.
Preview Cues. (Text is great, but sometimes, it's just not enough)
Choice. Organize information the way you want it.
News article : http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161405 The mSpace framework software is available for download from SourceForge.

Concept-mapping lets the user browse through the collection after entering an initial keyword and then branch out to look up related key terms. : http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/search/ Form querying provides greater precision, while concept-mapping, being linked to term frequency, is a much broader consultation tool.

As We May Think (by Vannevar Bush) : http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml compared to GreatMap http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Images/ManifestoX.html Visualization at http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Images/UserInterface.jpg

Possible Map Names:
WORST: Butcher Jones Beach,“Snake Butt", Valley of Desolation, Executioner's Drop, Disaster Mountain, Dismal Swamp, Rockbottom, Mount Misery, Dead Man's Swamp, Cataract Void
BEST: Paradise, Garden of the Gods, Hallelujah Hills, Touch of Nature, Discovery Park, Flying Horseshoe, Crocodile Creek, Soldier's Delight, Non-Smoker's Flat, Tornado Alley, Goblin's Glen
from http://www.dontgetlost.ca/gho/mapnames.pdf.

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