28-Nov-2007:Slight hiccup with the server this morning, now rectified.
27-Jun-2006: We are at ISSA 2006 where we are releasing the all new Version 3.1 with support for Wigmore diagrams
12-Jan-2006: Power outages all over the city today, playign havoc with our servers.
23-Sep-2005: Another campus-wide power outage scheduled for Sunday 25 Sep 1000-1700
12-Sep-2005: Power down all over campus on Friday, so server outage. Also, some versions of Araucaria cannot currently access the DB (though web access is fine). We are working on a solution.
31-Aug-2005: With our move to a new building, the server has been obliged to change its IP address to 134.36.36.33. There may be problems with DB access over the next few days.
18-May-2005: Version 3.0 is now available for download. CDs will also be available at OSSA 2005.
13-May-2005: Server failures beyond our control have lead to some service disruption. Back to normal now.
07-Feb-2005: Hardware failures on campus have led to many outages over the past fortnight. Now fixed.
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Araucaria is a software tool for analysing arguments. It aids a user in
reconstructing and diagramming an argument using a simple point-and-click
interface. The software also supports argumentation schemes, and provides
a user-customisable set of schemes with which to analyse arguments.
Once arguments have been analysed they can be saved in a portable format
called "AML", the Argument Markup Language, which is based on XML.
XML is a flexible language which can easily be used to
generate web pages and data with which to populate a database.
The definition of AML is available in the file
argument.dtd.
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Araucaria has been designed with the student, instructor, and researcher
in mind. It is sufficiently straightforward to be useful to students
learning how to reconstruct arguments, diagram them, and apply argumentation
schemes. It is sufficiently flexible for instructors to provide their
own examples, sample analyses, and alternate sets of argumentation schemes.
Finally, it is also sufficiently powerful to be of use in research,
particularly in providing examples of argument analyses to support
claims.
Araucaria is written in Java, which means that it runs on most computers,
including all versions of Windows, UNIX and Linux, Macs*, and so on.
The software is free (it is released under the
GNU General Public License)
and version 3.1 is now available for
download.
Access to AraucariaDB, the online repository of arguments, is now
available not only through Araucaria, but also through a
flexible search engine.
It is constructed from examples drawn from a
wide range of online resources.
The Araucaria user manual is available in
Postscript and
PDF formats.
Sample files are also available for use with Araucaria:
sample1 and
sample2.
Schemesets are also available from this page for use in the Araucaria
software. The following list of schemesets is to be extended over the
coming months:
Araucaria is a collaborative project between
Chris Reed and
Glenn Rowe at
the
School of Computing,
University of Dundee.
*If you use MacOS X, there may be a Java versioning issue which can be resolved by following these instructions.
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