In another list, Gerry McKiernan from Iowa State University Ames asks:
"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'."
Can any list members help out? This sounds like a great feature and a
practical way to promote & catalogue the tacit-to-explicit transfer of
knowledge ..."what I know and can connect" in a given domain or across
disparate domains."
Contact: Gerry McKiernan, HyperLinked Librarian, Iowa State University Ames
IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu and myself.
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