Context
Digital archives (DAs) store recorded cultural heritage information as cultural digital objects that can be made up of text, images, videos, files, or a combination of these. DAs provide long-term access to these cultural digital objects through digital preservation while making it more accessible to students, researchers, and the community. It is proficient in storing knowledge but are limited when creating relationships or illustrations, with information, for further analysis. Other tools exist to do this, but are not domain bound and requires a higher level of knowledge to use.
Aims
This study presents the implementation and evaluation of an experimental concept mapping system that allows users to create, edit and visualize digital content and the relationships between them.It outputs a concept map (or mind map) which gives an overview of a collection of related data linked with edges to show relationships between the information.
The entire system is called MASH, consisting of two main components: COCE and COMR.