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Intensional Hypertext

Intensional Hypertext
Intensional Hypertext
To become a meaningful medium that will enhance and support online interaction between Authors and actual, virtual Users, the Web must be intensional. This is a different emphasis for the Web than that defined by Ted Nelson when he coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1965. Since Nelson's view of hypermedia is often received as the definition from which the Web takes shape, this paper will consider Nelson's vision to demonstrate that, despite its hyperlinking, Nelson's project presents a unipolar, extensional vision of hypermedia. We explore the limits of such an extensional web and redefine the web through an intensional model (ConTexts and Intensional Communities). We also present this model's possibilities for future growth in creating machine-assisted, networked communications and communities.
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schraefel, m.c., Mancila, Blanca and Plaice, John , Geratsiykus, Manilis and Rodogiannis, Panos (eds.) (1999) Intensional Hypertext. Intensional Programming II: Papers based on the1999 International Symposium on Lucid and Intensional Programming.

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To become a meaningful medium that will enhance and support online interaction between Authors and actual, virtual Users, the Web must be intensional. This is a different emphasis for the Web than that defined by Ted Nelson when he coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1965. Since Nelson's view of hypermedia is often received as the definition from which the Web takes shape, this paper will consider Nelson's vision to demonstrate that, despite its hyperlinking, Nelson's project presents a unipolar, extensional vision of hypermedia. We explore the limits of such an extensional web and redefine the web through an intensional model (ConTexts and Intensional Communities). We also present this model's possibilities for future growth in creating machine-assisted, networked communications and communities.

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Published date: 1999
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 258795
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/258795
PURE UUID: 54b1f861-4991-4692-adc6-9dd87230db9c
ORCID for m.c. schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Date deposited: 27 Jan 2004
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:16

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Author: m.c. schraefel ORCID iD
Author: Blanca Mancila
Author: John Plaice
Editor: Manilis Geratsiykus
Editor: Panos Rodogiannis

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