Mindmap Converter

Caveats

•ADL will evolve

•CIMI RM will evolve

•Mindmap requirements will evolve

Goals

•Support ongoing work in Mindmaps

•Keep up with ADL and CIMI RM

•Ubiquitous tools

•Easy to use

•Easy to wrap with a GUI

Requirements

•Mindmap parser

•Freemind 0.9.0

•Freeplane 1.2.0

•Other formats ...?

•Creates generic heirarchical data

•Easy to create new parsers

Requirements

•ADL converter

•ADL 1.5

•ADL 2.x?

•UML & XML converter coming soon

•BMM file parser

•Mindmap repository support

Current Tools

•mmc

•Supports BMM files

•Supports “repositories” of mindmaps

•Outputs only ADL (for now)

•Ruby - Runs on OSX, Windows, Linux

Current Tools•mmcg (mmc GUI)

•Configuration manager

•BMM file manager

•Mindmap repository manager

•Freemind/Freeplane, ADL Workbench, git

•Builds for Mac OSX, Windows, Linux

Documentation

•Mindmap formatting rules

•mmc users guide

•mmcg users guide

•Mindmap Conversion lifecycle guide

•Freemind -> mmcg -> ADL Workbench