Hypertext: Some Definitions

Hypertext

• George P. Landow, Introductory comments from Hypertext (1992)
  • History of the Concept of Hypertext
  • Annotation in a Print Text
  • Roland Barthes and the Writerly Text
  • Reading and Writing in a Hypertext Environment
• Hypertext
  • John Tolva, The “Reading Wheel” and its Relation to Bush’s Memex
  • Kimberly Amaral, Hypertext : An Overview
  • G. Falquet, J. Guyot, I. Prince, Generating Hypertext Views on Databases
  • Hendrik Christanto’s The Architecture of Hypertext Systems (Dexter, Trellis, and other reference models)
  • Nicholas Friesner’s Web-Based Stretch-text
    • text only
    • text plus images

Hypertext and Hypermedia

• Sven Birkerts, Commigled Bits: Books Without Pages
• Hai Ping’s Hypervideo
• Francesca Chiocci, Music in Hypertexts: Toward a Real Media Integration

Hypertext and Related Issues

• Hypertext and Information retrieval (IR)
  • Cui Hang’s Information Retrieval in Hypertext Systems
  • Lan Man’s Hypertext, Information Retrieval, and Web Mining
• Thong Lip Fei’s Hypertext and Knowledge Management Systems

Components of Hypertext and Hypertext Systems

• Three basic forms of hypertext
• Links and Linking
  • Forms of Linking, Their Advantages and Disadvantages
  • Michael Pellauer, HyperTest — How many links ARE there?
• Linearity, nonlinearity, and multilinearity
• Modularity
• Navigation
  • Kathy Nguyen Dang’s Navigation in Hypertext
• Node, lexia, chunk, anchor, view
• Web, document, hypertext
• Paths, trails, paths
• Docuverse
• Open systems (places links in other software): Microcosm/Multicosm

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