Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 663.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:36:49 +0000
From: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Reader-Designated HyperLinking In/Between/Among E-Journals
_Reader-Designated HyperLinking_
In the process of reading/re-reading Web sites describing Ted Nelson's
Project Xanadu , e.g.,
Professorial Home Page of Ted Nelson
[http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/ ]
Project Xanadu [ http://www.xanadu.net/ ]
Ted Nelson and Xanadu
[ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html ]
I was struck by a description of the 'Parallel Textface' component of
Project Xanadu in a Web essay entitled "The World Wide Web: The Beginning
and Now" prepared by Matt Kazmierski
[ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mattkaz/history/hypertext2.html ].
In his brief overview, Kazmierski noted that the 'Parallel Textface' was
"unique because it _allowed a *user* to create links between documents_ even
if they were *not* related [emphasis added].
In considering this statement, it occurred to be that if would be quite
beneficial for a reader of an e-article to have the ability to create
*personalized* links between segments of an article, and/or to do the same
across articles in the same journal and/or provided by the same publisher,
and/or to e-journal provided by *other* publishers.
[In a way, this would be a very advanced form of an e-journal Annotation
feature within what I call the 'Eclectic Journal'
[ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0101/0131.html ]]
One could imagine a functionality that would allow a user to mark a section
of text in one e-article then to do the same in another e-article and then
to automatically create a link between the two segments by an appropriate
right-hand mouse selection and click and/or appropriate keyboard command
[Ctrl-L [:->]
[One could also imagine hyperlinking text to one (or more) multimedia
objects (e.g., a QuickTime movie))
I'd be interested in learning if such 'Reader-Designated HyperLinking'
exists
in some form or other, particularly in any existing e-journal or one
currently being designed or revamped. I would also be interested in learning
about any literature or technology relevant to the concept of
'reader-designated hyperlinking'.
As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, critiques, compliments,
complaints, queries, Cosmic Insights, etc. are Most Welcome!
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
HyperLinked Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
Don't Confuse Ability with Opportunity nor Opportunity with Ability.
BTW: Ted Nelson is credited with coining the word 'hypertext'
and Xanadu is considered by some as an inspiration for the World Wide Web,
e.g.,
[ http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~weberwu/ds/TedNelson.html]
[ http://www.callnetuk.com/home/billkennelly/who.htm ] ]
[ http://www.scope.at/program/speakers/nelson.html]
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