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{{Short description|Concept mapping application}}

{{Infobox Software

| name = VUE

| logo = [[File:Visual Understanding Environment Logo.gif]]

| screenshot =

| caption = Mapping interface of VUE.

| developer = Academic Technology group at [[Tufts|Tufts University]]

| released = {{Release date|2005|07|20}}<ref>httphttps://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=113315 according to sourceforge</ref>

| latest release version = 3.3.0

| frequently_updated = yes

| latest release versiondate = 3.2.2{{Release date|2015|10|08}}

| latest release date = {{Release date|2013|05|23}}

| latest preview version =

| latest preview date =

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| website = {{url|http://vue.tufts.edu/}}

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The '''Visual Understanding Environment''' ('''VUE''') is a free, [[open-source software|open-source]] [[concept map]]ping application written in [[Java (programming language)|Java]]. The application is developed by the Academic Technology group at [[Tufts University]]. VUE is licensed under the [[Educational Community License]]. VUE 3.0, the latest release, was funded under a grant from the [[Mellon Foundation|Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]].

==The VUE Project==

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts UIT Academic Technology is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design [[semantic networksnetwork]]s of digital resources drawn from digital libraries, local and remote file systems.

==Releases==

Tufts University's VUE development team has coordinated releases of the VUE project. The project's most recent release, VUE 3, has added many new features which distinguish it from traditional [[concept mapping]] tools.<ref>http://vue.tufts.edu/forums/topic.cfm?cf_id=8&t_id=197 According to an announcement</ref> made by the VUE team on their forums, new features include: tools for dynamic presentation of maps, map merge and analysis tools,

enhanced [[keyword tagging]] and search capabilities, support for [[Semantic Webmapper|semantic mapping]] using [[ontologies]], expanded search of online resources (such as [[Flickr]], [[Yahoo]], [[Twitter]], or [[PubMed]], etc.).

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"

! Release

! Date

|-

| VUE 3.3.0

| 8 Oct 2015

|-

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| VUE 3.2.2

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==See also==

* [[List of mindconcept- and mind-mapping software]]

* [[List of concept mapping software]]

==References==

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* [http://vue.tufts.edu VUE's website]

* [http://vue-forums.uit.tufts.edu VUE User Forums]

* [httphttps://sourceforge.net/projects/tuftsvue/ VUE on Sourceforge]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090921004454/http://vuecommunity.ning.com/ VUE community] on [[Ning (website)|Ning]]

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