Bruce,
ATLAS.ti supports the "hyper hype" to quite some extent but differs from
conventional HT systems (including web browsers) in many aspects:
1. Links can be specified (e.g., "is-argument-for", "warrants", "explains",
etc) and are not simple implicit "associated with" links or mere navigation
"jump" devices.
2. You can use hypertext networks of linked data segments including text,
graphic segments and audio data (video in the future) to not only navigate
between the bits and pieces, but also to represent macro structures (story
lines etc).
3. Source and target objects are not "points" but segments, embedded in
their context, so you have a lower chance to "get lost in hyperspace". In
addition, you can traverse to the more abstract level of codes and back to
the data.
4. Semantic and hypertext networks can be mixed showing the interrelation
between code and data level quite densely.
5. Traversal between the data segments is supported by displaying "hot"
links in the margin area alongside the segmented text.
One of the reasons to include hypertext functionality was the inability of
purely code-based systems to express statements like "argument x is in
contradiction with argument y".
I would be interested in your ideas of what an architecture of a "full
fledged hypermedia systems" should include (besides nicer buttons...).
Kind regards
- Thomas
At 14:10 10.07.98 GMT0BST, you wrote:
>programs out there that do just this? (For example I know ATLAS/ti
>has a hyperlink facility integrated into it and the ability to export
>to HTML but I don't think it is sufficient to support a fully
>fledged hypermedia environment). Also are there other people out
>there working on or interested in similar projects?
>
>---Bruce Mason
>Bruce Mason, SOCAS, UWC.
>Research Associate: Hypermedia and Ethnography
>Email me <[log in to unmask]> for more information about this project
>or check the following url:
>http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/socas/research/hyper/
>
>
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