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  1. Heffron, J.K.; Dillon, A.; Mostafa, J.: Landmarks in the World Wide Web : a preliminary study (1996) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Outlines the results of a pilot study designed to consider what constitutes a landmark in hypertext. Tests users' memories for locations visited on the WWW. Reports the results, and outlines a refined methodology for a new study. By understanding more about users' navigation through hypertext information space, the issue of recognition of informative materials on the WWW may be addressed
    Imprint
    Medford, NJ : Learned Information
    Source
    Global complexity: information, chaos and control. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, ASIS'96, Baltimore, Maryland, 21-24 Oct 1996. Ed.: S. Hardin
  2. Intelligent hypertext : Advanced techniques for the World Wide Web (1997) 0.00
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    Abstract
    This book constitutes a coherent anthology consisting of invited chapter-length papers on intelligent hypertext techniques with special emphasis on how to apply these techniques to the WWW. The book provides an introductory preface, chapters on information comprehension through hypertext, efficient techniques for adaptive hypermedia, annotated 3D environments on the Web, user models for customized hypertext, conceptual analysis of hypertext, two-level models of hypertext, the TELLTALE dynamic hypertext environment, hypertext for collaborative authoring, information retrieval and information agents
    LCSH
    World Wide Web (Information retrieval system)
    Subject
    World Wide Web (Information retrieval system)
  3. Tredinnick, L.: Post-structuralism, hypertext, and the World Wide Web (2007) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of post-structuralist theory to understanding hypertext and the World Wide Web, and the challenge posed by digital information technology to the practices of the information profession. Design/methodology/approach - The method adopted is that of a critical study. Findings - The paper argues for the importance of post-structuralism for an understanding of the implications of digital information for the information management profession. Originality/value - Focuses on an epistemological gap between the traditional practices of the information profession, and the structure of the World Wide Web.
  4. Scott, P.: Hypertext: information at your fingertips (1993) 0.00
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    Source
    Designing information: new roles for librarians
  5. Spertus, E.: ParaSite : mining structural information on the Web (1997) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Discusses the varieties of link information on the WWW, how the Web differs from conventional hypertext, and how the links can be exploited to build useful applications. Specific applications presented as part of the ParaSite system find individuals' homepages, new locations of moved pages and unindexed information
  6. Amitay, E.: Trends, fashions, patterns, norms, conventions and hypertext too (2001) 0.00
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    Abstract
    At a finer level, Amitay speculates about the use of language on the Web. The Web may be one large corpus of text, but she suggests that communities will express themselves by the conventions used for writing hypertext. It may be that new information technologies will spawn new communities.
    Footnote
    Beitrag eines Themenheftes: Still the Frontier: Information Science at the Millenium
    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 52(2001) no.1, S.36-43
  7. Carlson, J.R.; Kacmar, C.J.: an examination of end-user preferences : Increasing link marker effectiveness for WWW and other hypermedia interfaces (1999) 0.00
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    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 50(1999) no.5, S.386-398
  8. Machovec, G.S.: World Wide Web : accessing the Internet (1993) 0.00
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    Abstract
    The World Wide Web (WWW) is one of the newest tools available to assist in the navigation of the Internet. As with other client/server network tools such as Gopher and WAIS, developments with the Web are in a dynamic state of change. Basically, WWW is an effort to organize information on the Internet plus local information into a set of hypertext documents; a person navigates the network by moving from one document to another via a set of hypertext links
  9. Scott, P.: Hypertext ... information at your fingertips (1993) 0.00
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    Imprint
    Illinois : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
  10. Pfaff, S.: ¬Die Entwicklung eines Hypertextdokumentes als Informationsdienstleistung der Bibliothek und Dokumentation des Deutschen Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY im Internet (1994) 0.00
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    Footnote
    [Abschlußarbeit im Lehrbegiet Information Management des Instituts für Information und Dokumentation an der FH Potsdam]
  11. Lennon, J.A.: Hypermedia systems and applications : World Wide Web and beyond (1997) 0.00
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    Abstract
    This is the first comprehensive book on hypermedia nd the WWW that icludes features of the 2nd generation systems. Definitions, history, current technology and problems, leading-edge initiatives, future applications, all these are seen as an unfolding of a millenial communication medium that is not serving but involving even the non-technical person in a very technical world. Much of the promise of hypermedia lies in its applications to education, and this receives prominence in the book. The new hypermedia system 'HyperWave' is described in detail. The book's vision, organization, and easy-to-read style make it suitable as a source for information for the practitioner and the general reader. It may also serve both as a reference book for researchers and as a textbook
    LCSH
    World Wide Web (Information retrieval system)
    Subject
    World Wide Web (Information retrieval system)
  12. Luzón, M.J.: Scholarly hyperwriting : the function of links in academic weblogs (2009) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Weblogs are gaining momentum as one of most versatile tools for online scholarly communication. Since academic weblogs tend to be used by scholars to position themselves in a disciplinary blogging community, links are essential to their construction. The aim of this article is to analyze the reasons for linking in academic weblogs and to determine how links are used for distribution of information, collaborative construction of knowledge, and construction of the blog's and the blogger's identity. For this purpose I analyzed types of links in 15 academic blogs, considering both sidebar links and in-post links. The results show that links are strategically used by academic bloggers for several purposes, among others to seek their place in a disciplinary community, to engage in hypertext conversations for collaborative construction of knowledge, to organize information in the blog, to publicize their research, to enhance the blog's visibility, and to optimize blog entries and the blog itself.
    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(2009) no.1, S.75-89
  13. Holzinger, A.: Basiswissen Multimedia : Bd.1: Technik (2000) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Multimedia und Internet, Hypertext und Hypermedia - spannende Begriffe an der Schwelle zum nächsten Jahrtausend. Das Fachbuch behandelt technologische Grundlagen multimedialer Informationssysteme: - Information und Kommunikation / Signale und Codierung / Audiotechnik / Videotechnik / Multimedia via Internet
  14. Bra, P. de: Hypermedia, de opvolger van boek, film en video (1996) 0.00
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    Abstract
    The concept of a system combining information in both textual and pictorial format was first suggested by Vannevar Bush in 1945. The present hypermedia system was originally developed by Tim Berners Lee at CERN in 1989 and provides access to brief documents, which are interlinked and contain text, images, sound and video. The system has become widely available through the WWW, which enables users to 'navigate' through related information. Recent developments include the ability to view objects in virtual reality and the automatic generation of document links
  15. Hammwöhner, R.: Komplexe Hypertextmodelle im World Wide Web durch dynamische Dokumente (1997) 0.00
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    Source
    Hypertext - Information Retrieval - Multimedia '97: Theorien, Modelle und Implementierungen integrierter elektronischer Informationssysteme. Proceedings HIM '97. Hrsg.: N. Fuhr u.a
  16. Bieber, M.: Fourth generation hypermedia : some missing links for the World Wide Web (1997) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Presents a set of high-level hypermedia features: typed nodes and links, link attributes, structure-based query, transclusion, warm and hot links, private and public linkds, external link databases, link update mechanisms, overview, trails guided tours, backtracking and history-based navigation. Illustrates each feature from existing implementations and a running scenario. Gives suggestions for implementing these on the WWW and in other information systems
  17. Yang, C.C.; Liu, N.: Web site topic-hierarchy generation based on link structure (2009) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Navigating through hyperlinks within a Web site to look for information from one of its Web pages without the support of a site map can be inefficient and ineffective. Although the content of a Web site is usually organized with an inherent structure like a topic hierarchy, which is a directed tree rooted at a Web site's homepage whose vertices and edges correspond to Web pages and hyperlinks, such a topic hierarchy is not always available to the user. In this work, we studied the problem of automatic generation of Web sites' topic hierarchies. We modeled a Web site's link structure as a weighted directed graph and proposed methods for estimating edge weights based on eight types of features and three learning algorithms, namely decision trees, naïve Bayes classifiers, and logistic regression. Three graph algorithms, namely breadth-first search, shortest-path search, and directed minimum-spanning tree, were adapted to generate the topic hierarchy based on the graph model. We have tested the model and algorithms on real Web sites. It is found that the directed minimum-spanning tree algorithm with the decision tree as the weight learning algorithm achieves the highest performance with an average accuracy of 91.9%.
    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(2009) no.3, S.495-508
  18. Saarela, J.: Logical structure of a hypermedia newspaper (1997) 0.00
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    Source
    Information processing and management. 33(1997) no.5, S.599-614
  19. Heo, M.; Hirtle, S.C.: ¬An empirical comparison of visualization tools to assist information retrieval on the Web (2001) 0.00
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    Abstract
    The reader of a hypertext document in a web environment, if maximum use of the document is to be obtained, must visualize the overall structure of the paths through the document as well as the document space. Graphic visualization displays of this space, produced to assist in navigation, are classified into four groups, and Heo and Hirtle compare three of these classes as to their effectiveness. Distortion displays expand regions of interest while relatively diminishing the detail of the remaining regions. This technique will show both local detail and global structure. Zoom techniques use a series of increasingly focused displays of smaller and smaller areas, and can reduce cogitative overload, but do not provide an easy movement to other parts of the total space. Expanding outline displays use a tree structure to allow movement through a hierarchy of documents, but if the organization has a wide horizontal structure, or is not particularly hierarchical in nature such display can break down. Three dimensional layouts, which are not evaluated here, place objects by location in three space, providing more information and freedom. However, the space must be represented in two dimensions resulting in difficulty in visually judging depth, size and positioning. Ten students were assigned to each of eight groups composed of viewers of the three techniques and an unassisted control group using either a large (583 selected pages) or a small (50 selected pages) web space. Sets of 10 questions, which were designed to elicit the use of a visualization tool, were provided for each space. Accuracy and time spent were extracted from a log file. Users views were also surveyed after completion. ANOVA shows significant differences in accuracy and time based upon the visualization tool in use. A Tukey test shows zoom accuracy to be significantly less than expanding outline and zoom time to be significantly greater than both the outline and control groups. Size significantly affected accuracy and time, but had no interaction with tool type. While the expanding tool class out performed zoom and distortion, its performance was not significantly different from the control group.
    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 52(2001) no.8, S.666-675
  20. Barabási, A.-L.: Linked: The New Science of Networks (2002) 0.00
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    Footnote
    Rez. in: nfd 54(2003) H.8, S.497 (T. Mandl): "Gesetze der digitalen Anarchie - Hyperlinks im Internet entstehen als Ergebnis sozialer Prozesse und können auch als formaler Graph im Sinne der Mathematik interpretiert werden. Die Thematik Hyperlinks ist im Information Retrieval höchst aktuell, da Suchmaschinen die Link-Struktur bei der Berechnung ihrer Ergebnisse berücksichtigen. Algorithmen zur Bestimmung des "guten Rufs" einer Seite wie etwa PageRank von Google gewichten eine Seite höher, wenn viele links auf sie verweisen. Barabási erklärt dem Leser seines Buches darüber hinaus noch, wie es zu solchen Phänomenen kommt. Soziale Prozesse im Netz wirken so, dass bereits bekannte Seiten mit größerer Wahrscheinlichkeit auch wieder weitere Links oder neue Besucher anziehen. Barabási ist Physiker an der Notre-Dame University und ihm fehlt ebenso wie Huberman die informationswissenschaftliche Perspektive. Er fragt also kaum, wie kann das Wissen über Netzwerke zu Verbesserungen in Informationssystemen führen, die Benutzerbedürfnisse besser erfüllen. Gleichwohl lohnt sich die Lektüre auch für Informationswissenschaftler. Barabäsi stellt die aktuelle Forschung zur Netzwerkstruktur des Internets auf einfache Weise fast ohne Zugeständnisse an Aktualität und Komplexität dar. Wie Huberman verzichtet auch er weitgehend auf Formeln und andere Formalismen. Der in Ungarn geborene Barabási lässt darüber hinaus keine Anekdote aus, sei es über die Begründer der Graphen-Theorie, im peer-review abgelehnte Beiträge und persönliche Begegnungen mit anderen Forschern. Barabási beginnt mit einfachen Netzwerkstrukturen und schreitet didaktisch über internet-ähnliche Netzwerke weiter zu Anwendungen und praktischen Beispielen aus unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen. Er schafft mit seinem Buch "Linked" unter anderem Links zwischen der ungarischen Literatur, dem I-Love-You Computer-Virus, der Verbreitung von Aids, den Theorien Einsteins, den Aufsichtsräten der wichtigsten amerikanischen Firmen, dem Al-Qaeda-Netzwerk und der Struktur und der Funktion biologischer Zellen. Zu Beginn seines Buches berichtet Barabási von sogenannten kleinen Welten, in denen viele Objekte über wenige Verbindungen zusammenhängen. Ein Blick in den eigenen größeren Bekanntenkreis mag bestätigen, dass viele Menschen über wenige Schritte zwischen Bekannten erreichbar sind. Sowohl Barabäsi als auch Huberman gehen auf die Geschichte des ersten sozialwissenschaftlichen Experiments zu diesem Thema ein, das in den 1960er Jahren versuchte, die Anzahl von Schritten zwischen gemeinsamen Bekannten zu bestimmen, welche vom Mittleren Westen der USA an die Ostküste führt. Die genauere Struktur solcher Systeme, in denen manche Knoten weitaus mehr Beziehungen zu anderen eingehen als der Durchschnitt, führt hin zum Internet. Im Web lässt sich keineswegs immer ein Pfad zwischen zwei Knoten finden, wie noch vor wenigen Jahren vermutet wurde. Die durchschnittliche Entfernung war damals noch mit 19 Klicks berechnet worden. Vielmehr herrscht eine differenziertere Struktur, die Barabási vorstellt und in der zahlreiche Seiten in Sackgassen führen. Huberman wie Barabási diskutieren auch negative Aspekte des Internet. Während Huberman die Wartezeiten und Staus bei Downloads analysiert, bespricht Barabási die rasante Verbreitung von ComputerViren und weist auf die Grundlagen für diese Gefährdung hin. Das vorletzte Kapitel widmen übrigens beide Autoren den Märkten im Internet. Spätestens hier werden die wirtschaftlichen Aspekte von Netzwerken deutlich. Beide Titel führen den Leser in die neue Forschung zur Struktur des Internet als Netzwerk und sind leicht lesbar. Beides sind wissenschaftliche Bücher, wenden sich aber auch an den interessierten Laien. Das Buch von Barabási ist etwas aktueller, plauderhafter, länger, umfassender und etwas populärwissenschaftlicher."