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C-Link: A New Concept Mapping Tool for Enhanced Information Searching

C-Link is a tool designed to help users navigate information overload by creating visual maps of concept relationships sourced from Wikipedia. Users can explore, export, and modify maps for better understanding and focused searching. A preliminary test showed positive results, with students finding new links and conceptualizing relationships effectively. The tool has potential for educational and research purposes, but faces funding limitations. Visit the website for more information.

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C-Link: A New Concept Mapping Tool for Enhanced Information Searching

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  1. C-Link: a new information search tool Peter Hartley, Peter Cowlingand Stephen Remde p.hartley@bradford.ac.uk

  2. The software • For background and links, go to: http://conceptlinkage.org/ • To go straight to the tool, go to: http://conceptlinkage.org/clink/ NB Version 2 about to go online.

  3. C-Link development

  4. Why bother? • Students are not making the most of their information searching, especially in the early stages of their courses: • Limited range of sources. • Limited search strategies. • Problems of information overload. • Present approaches to searching do not typically cultivate skills of critical analysis or enable dialogue. • NB Need more research in this area!

  5. What can C-Link do? • Builds a map of relationship between 2 concepts (searching an archived edition of Wikipedia). • You can explore the map within C-Link. (move around it/ zoom in and out/ go straight to Wikipedia page) • You can export and save the map into freely available concept mapping software (Cmap) • You can then modify the map and specify links/add resources.

  6. And we are topical!

  7. Possible advantages • Discover unknown links and possibilities. • Visual map helps to conceptualise relationships. • Helps to understand the relationships between concepts that we have never seen before and those with which we are familiar. • Can focus search on relevant areas without reading articles on unknown concepts in detail.

  8. A preliminary test • Experimental trial, consisting of 10 tasks, half of which were to be completed using C-­‐Link and the other half using the standard built-­‐in search in Wikipedia. • For each of the tasks, the participants had five minutes to find five concepts that provided interesting connections between pairs of given concepts. • They were also asked to rate how difficult each task was and how confident they were in their results.

  9. Student reactions

  10. Student reactions

  11. Different ways ofC-Link searching • A against A. • Can use to explore definitions by identifying related concepts. • A against B. • Identify links. • Explore an area • Suggest new avenues.

  12. Demo • For background and links, go to: http://conceptlinkage.org/ • To go straight to the tool, go to: http://conceptlinkage.org/clink/ NB Version 2 about to go online.

  13. Example

  14. Example

  15. Using C-Link search in learning and teaching • Offer the facility to staff and students • Use searches as a basis for discussion • Edit the searches with Cmap as exercise or as basis for class discussion/posting/online dialogue.

  16. Developmentand potential? • Industrial/commercial development ongoing. • Need to build user community for education. • Potential for research? • Need to link to other databases.

  17. And the barrier … • The classic project issue – a very useful and flexible tool but limited funding for further development and community building. • Suggestions most welcome!

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