Concept Mapping
Use reference works - like Oxford Art Online and The Met's Timeline of Art History - to help formulate your map.
Mind Mapping, by Keith Davenport; photo available on Flickr
- RISD Libraries Concept Map TutorialTutorial created by Ellen Petraits, RISD Fleet Library
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History”Authored by the Met’s experts—predominantly made up of curators but also of conservators, scientists, and educators—the Timeline comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.
- Oxford Art Online
Encyclopedia articles about artists, architects, and artistic movements & periods, as well as bibliographies for further research. Also includes thousands of searchable images.
Concept Mapping Software
- FreeMindFree app built in Java; requires download. Offers complex diagrams, branches, graphics, and icons to differentiate notes and connect them, and the option to embed links and multimedia in your maps for quick reference.
- Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)An open source mapping and presentation tool. Requires download.
- CoggleCoggle is free, only requiring a Google account to sign in. Double-click on any item to edit it, and click the plus signs on either side to add branches to your map.