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Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems

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Frank G. HalaszAuthors Info & Claims

HYPERTEXT '87: Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext

Pages 345 - 365

https://doi.org/10.1145/317426.317451

Published: 01 November 1987 Publication History

Abstract

NoteCards is a general hypermedia environment designed to help people work with ideas. Its intended users are authors, designers, and other intellectual laborers engaged in analyzing information, designing artifacts, and generally processing ideas. The system provides these users with a variety of hypermedia-based tools for collecting, representing, managing, interrelating, and communicating ideas.

This paper presents the NoteCards system as a foil against which to explore some of the major limitations of the current generation of hypermedia systems. In doing so, this paper highlights seven of the major issues that must be addressed in the next generation of hypermedia systems. These seven issues are: search and query, composite nodes, virtual structures, computational engines, versioning, collaborative work, and tailorability. For each of these issues, the papers describes the limitations inherent in NoteCards and the prospects for doing improving the situation in future systems.

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Index Terms

Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia creation
      2. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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HYPERTEXT '87: Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext

November 1987

470 pages

ISBN:089791340X

DOI:10.1145/317426

Chairmen:
John B. Smith
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Frank Halasz
Microelectronics and Computing Technology Corp., Austin, TX

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