Writing and Reading Hypermedia on the Web
Writing and Reading Hypermedia on the Web
The Web is a linked literature: we wish to discover what the authors of Web pages are choosing to link and what they are choosing to link to. It is hoped that understanding interconnectedness as it is practised in the Web through links will enable us to see what kinds of hypertext are achievable using common technologies and what is impracticable. Understanding the arrangement of the links helps us to understand the construction of the page as a whole which in turn helps us to understand the purpose of the links. This paper discusses a search for examples of good subject-based hypertext linking, the linking statistics that we drew from those pages and the linking practises that the statistics represent. We also show how the analysis of how hypertext links are written can be applied to the problem of Web page reading in non-standard and reduced-bandwidth Web browsing applications.
University of Southampton
Carr, Les
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Hall, Wendy
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Miles-Board, Timothy
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January 2000
Carr, Les
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Hall, Wendy
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Miles-Board, Timothy
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Carr, Les, Hall, Wendy and Miles-Board, Timothy
(2000)
Writing and Reading Hypermedia on the Web
University of Southampton
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The Web is a linked literature: we wish to discover what the authors of Web pages are choosing to link and what they are choosing to link to. It is hoped that understanding interconnectedness as it is practised in the Web through links will enable us to see what kinds of hypertext are achievable using common technologies and what is impracticable. Understanding the arrangement of the links helps us to understand the construction of the page as a whole which in turn helps us to understand the purpose of the links. This paper discusses a search for examples of good subject-based hypertext linking, the linking statistics that we drew from those pages and the linking practises that the statistics represent. We also show how the analysis of how hypertext links are written can be applied to the problem of Web page reading in non-standard and reduced-bandwidth Web browsing applications.
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Published date: January 2000
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 252643
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/252643
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Date deposited: 19 Jun 2001
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:33
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Timothy Miles-Board
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