Library Research Guides: ARTH A400 Senior Seminar: Concept Mapping

Concept Mapping

Mind Mapping, by Keith Davenport; photo available on Flickr

RISD Libraries Concept Map Tutorial
Tutorial 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
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Encyclopedia articles about artists, architects, and artistic movements & periods, as well as bibliographies for further research. Also includes thousands of searchable images.
Provides access to Oxford’s art reference works, including the Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.

FreeMind
Free 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.
Coggle
Coggle 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.