Structured Group Discussion system.

In the 1980s, [Horst Rittel] developed the Issue-Based Information System, a hypertext environment for the structured discussion of design issues. This system uses a stringent classification scheme to organize the data. There are three node types (issues, positions, arguments) and nine link types (responds-to, questions, supports, objects-to, specializes, generalizes, refers-to, replaces). These elements are designed to be used in the analysis of "WickEd Problems." -http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0104.html

• simpler list of node types (with no link types): dang, I wish Free Mind has these exact icons!

  • question/issue (icon=question mark)

  • idea/position (icon=light bulb)

  • pro, con (argument) (icons = plus, minus)

Someone tried to do this in wiki: http://twiki.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view/Codev/IbisWiki

Summary of gIBIS (graphical IBIS): http://www.weblogkitchen.com/wiki.cgi?GraphicalIbis

Could you get close to this with Mind Mapping?

The descendants of Jeff Conklin's gIBIS are first his work with [GDSS]'s [Quest Map] now used by Conklin to support Dialogue Mapping, which has been further extended into Compend Ium, and a Java tool called Mifflin. (Simon Buckingham Shum)

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