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Thomas Aquinas
Two pillars of memory:
Association
Order
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Topic Maps 1.0
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600 years later...
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Charles Cutter “The desks had ... a little key-
board at each, connected by a wire. The reader had only to find the mark of his book in the catalog, touch a few lettered or numbered keys, and [the book] appeared after an astonishingly short interval.
Charles Cutter, “The Buffalo Public Library of 1983” (Library Journal, 1883)
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H.G. Wells The whole human memory
can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. [T]his new all-human cerebrum ... can have at once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an amoeba..."
H.G. Wells, World Brain, 1938
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Teilhard de Chardin
“A sort of ‘etherised’ human consciousness... a single, organized, unbroken membrane over the earth” that will “pave the way for a revolution.”
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Paul Otlet
•Creator of Universal Decimal Classification
•Founder of Mundaneum
•Author of Monde, Traité de documentation
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Otlet
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How the UDC works
Universal Decimal Classification for top-down categorization
Auxiliary Tables to mark relationships between topics (e.g., “+” “/” “:”)
Constructing the “social space” of a document
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What would Otlet’s Web have looked
like?Marriage of top-down classification
with bottom-up categorization
Constructing the “social space” of a document
Typed associations, e.g.:
Agree / Disagree / Approve / Disapprove
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Vannevar Bush
Science advisor to FDR
President of Carnegie Institution
Author of “As We May Think”
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As We May Think
“Thus [the user] goes, building a trail of many items. Occasionally he inserts a comment of his own, either linking it to the main trail or joining it by a side trail to a particular item… Thus he builds a trail of his interest through the maze of materials available to him.”
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“Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the Memex and there amplified.”
As We May Think
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What would Bush’s Web have looked
like?
Two-way links
Visible trails
User-generated content
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Eugene Garfield
Founder of Science Citation Index
Inventor of citation ranking
Forefather of PageRank
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What would Garfield’s Web look like?
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Doug Engelbart
Former SRI Researcher
Creator of oNLine System (NLS)
Author of “Augmenting Human Intelligence”
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What would Engelbart’s Web have looked like?
Tools for group collaboration
Process hierarchies
Multi-level nesting of organizational knowledge
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Xerox PARC
Founded by Alan Kay and several early Engelbart collaborators
Mission: “The Architecture of Information”
Invented the GUI, precursors of the modern PC
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TextText
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Apple Hypercard
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Ted NelsonCoined the term “hypertext” (1965)
Author of Literary Machines, Dream Machines, Computer Lib
Creator of Xanadu
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http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/computer-lib/dm-cover.jpg
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Andries Van Dam
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On Hypertext“I mean non-sequential writing – text that branches and allows choices to the reader… a series of text chunks connected by links which offer the reader different pathways.”
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Nelson-isms Transclusion
Docuverse
Stretchtext
Zippered lists
Window sandwiches
Indexing vortexes
Part-pounces
Tumblers
Collateral hypertext
Humbers
Thinkertoys
Fresh hyperbooks
Anthological hyperbooks
Grand systems
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On Hypertext“So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.”
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What would Nelson’s Web have looked
like?
Transclusion
Two-way linking
Addressable bits
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I Don’t Buy In
The Web isn’t hypertext, it’s DECORATED DIRECTORIES!
What we have instead is the vacuous victory of typesetters over authors, and the most trivial form of hypertext that could have been imagined
There is an alternative.
Markup must not be embedded. Hierarchies and files must not be part of the mental structure of documents. Links must go both ways. All these fundamental errors of the Web must be repaired. But the geeks have tried to lock the door behind them to make nothing else possible.
We fight on. More later.
- Ted Nelson
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Andries Van Dam Early collaborator with Nelson
Created the first working hypertext systems:
Hypertext Editing System (HES)
File Retrieval and Editing System (FRESS)
Intermedia
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Intermedia
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What would the IRIS Web have looked
like?
Networked applications embedded in the GUI
Two-way hyperlinks
Topic Map-like views
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Berners-Lee and CaillauFormer researchers at
CERN
Berners-Lee built first version of Enquire in 1980
Released WorldWideWeb in 1989
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In Search of the Web That Wasn’t
Marrying top-down taxonomies with bottom-up “social space”
Two-way linking
Visible pathways
Typed associations
Abstraction of concepts from the presentation layer
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Reading list H.G. Wells, “World Brain”
Teilhard de Chardin, Phenomenon of Man
Boyd Rayward, “Visions of Xanadu”
Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”
Ted Nelson, Literary Machines
Doug Engelbart, “Augmenting Human Intelligence”
Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web
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Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
by Alex Wright
http://alexwright.org/glut/