ABSTRACT
Within the MAPA study project, students from the Universities of Osnabrück, Tübingen and Bochum1 participate in a joint effort to develop a framework that allows the mapping of knowledge in a cognitively adequate way. Our approach connects to existing techniques of mind mapping, concept mapping and the like. A major assumption is that the internal mental representation of knowledge is networklike and that therefore its externalisation must be done accordingly. Due to the complexity of knowledge however, we intend the external representations to consist of cues to knowledge rather than a representation of knowledge itself, (cf. Spitzer 2000)
