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'''Compendium''' is a computer program and [[social science]] tool that facilitates the mapping and management of ideas and arguments. The software provides a visual environment that allows people to structure and record collaboration as they discuss and work through '[[wicked problem]]s'.

The software is currentlywas released by the not-for-profit Compendium Institute. The current version operationalises the [[Issue-Based Information System]] (IBIS), an argumentation mapping structure first developed by [[Horst Rittel]] in the 1970s. Compendium adds [[hypertext]] functionality and [[database]] [[interoperability]] to the issue-based notation derived from IBIS.

Compendium source code was fully released under [[Lesser General Public License|LGPL licence]] on 13 January 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last=Buckingham Shum |first=Simon J |title=Compendium released open source |publisher=Compendium Institute |date=13 February 2009 |url=http://compendiuminstitute.net/news/rostra/news.php@r=55&t=2&id=41.htm |accessdate=11 January 2015}}</ref>

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Compendium is the result of fifteen years of development in collaborative modeling, initiated in the mid-1990s by Al Selvin and Maarten Sierhuis at [[NYNEX]] Science & Technology; the theory behind the software hails from the 1970s, when IBIS ([[Issue-Based Information System]]) was first conceptualised by [[Horst Rittel]]. Selvin and Sierhuis built on Jeff Conklin's earlier hypertext issue mapping software: gIBIS and QuestMap.<ref>{{cite web |title=Compendium project |publisher=Knowledge Media Institute, [[Open University]] |date=2009 |url=http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/compendium/ |accessdate=11 January 2015}}</ref>

Many associations have thence contributed ideas to the development of Compendium. These institutions include Blue Oxen Associates, Center for Creative Leadership, [[Open University]]'s Knowledge Media Institute, [[Verizon]], CogNexus Institute, and Agent iSolutions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Participating institutions |publisher=Compendium Institute |date=2007 |url=http://compendiuminstitute.net/institutions.htm |accessdate=11 January 2015}}</ref>. In 2012 the Compendium community established CompendiumNG to further advance and develop the software.<ref>{{cite web |title=CompendiumNG wiki |publisher=CompendiumNG |date=2017 |url=https://github.com/CompendiumNG/CompendiumNG/wiki |accessdate=22 February 2017}}</ref>

==See also==