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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''' or ('''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 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]].

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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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