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What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important?

What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important?
What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important?
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, it needs to develop an analogue that will help people not only understand what it is, but what the potential opportunities are that are enabled by these new protocols. The model proposed in the paper takes the way that Web interaction has been framed as a baseline to inform a similar analogue for the Semantic Web. While the Web has been represented as a Page + Links, the paper presents the argument that the Semantic Web can be conceptualized as a Notebook + Memex. The argument considers how this model also presents new challenges for fundamental human interaction with computing, and that hypertext models have much to contribute to this new understanding for distributed information systems.
Memex, notebooks, hypertext argumentation, interaction design, Semantic Web, Jourknow, mSpace, Tabulator
schraefel, m.c.
ac304659-1692-47f6-b892-15113b8c929f
schraefel, m.c.
ac304659-1692-47f6-b892-15113b8c929f

schraefel, m.c. (2007) What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important? ACM Hypertext 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom. 01 - 12 Sep 2007.

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This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, it needs to develop an analogue that will help people not only understand what it is, but what the potential opportunities are that are enabled by these new protocols. The model proposed in the paper takes the way that Web interaction has been framed as a baseline to inform a similar analogue for the Semantic Web. While the Web has been represented as a Page + Links, the paper presents the argument that the Semantic Web can be conceptualized as a Notebook + Memex. The argument considers how this model also presents new challenges for fundamental human interaction with computing, and that hypertext models have much to contribute to this new understanding for distributed information systems.

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Published date: 2007
Additional Information: ACM Englebart Best Paper Award Event Dates: Sept 1-12, 2007
Venue - Dates: ACM Hypertext 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2007-09-01 - 2007-09-12
Keywords: Memex, notebooks, hypertext argumentation, interaction design, Semantic Web, Jourknow, mSpace, Tabulator
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 264274
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264274
PURE UUID: d2eec1ff-7459-44a4-bce1-f30802cb1f12
ORCID for m.c. schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Date deposited: 05 Jul 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:16

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Author: m.c. schraefel ORCID iD

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