Visualization Based on Concept Maps: An Efficient Way to Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Discovery in E-science Environment

Knowledge visualization is a fascinating study field that has received more attention. In e-Science environment, people pay more attention to the scientific visualization and data visualization. Visualization about information exchange and knowledge sharing is rare to be mentioned. If the concept maps, a visualization tool, are used to help members in e-Science environment to describe their structure of knowledge in communication, it can facilitate thinking together and the collective wisdom, it also can promote the knowledge sharing and the creation of the new knowledge. In this paper, we discuss the application of concept maps and we promote an application model in e-Science environment.