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Papers by David Durand

The convention for acknowledgements seems to put professional thanks first, and per-sonal ones la... more The convention for acknowledgements seems to put professional thanks first, and per-sonal ones last, but I have decided to reverse that. I want to thank my family first. Throughout, my wife Elli has helped me, made time for my work at the cost of her own ease, and believed in the project and life after graduate school. Despina has provided relief and joy and put up with a father busier than she deserves. My parents have had encouraged me, advised me, and shared encouraging stories about their own dissertation experiences, in very different disciplines. My brother John has encouraged me throughout and often reminds me that people outside the academy are interested in this stuff as well. Many people have given ideas or endured my long ramblings on editing and hypertext. I’d like to thank Steve DeRose, Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, Jeremy Bornstein, and the rest of the CHUG gang for starting me back down the road of text and hypertext. Steve gave me a wealth of detailed feedback on the d...

From the Publisher: The explosive growth of HTML with its role in the World Wide Web has created ... more From the Publisher: The explosive growth of HTML with its role in the World Wide Web has created a whole new market for SGML products and knowledge. This thorough guide to SGML covers the key elements needed to create and use online documents, and emphasizes the use of new easy-to-use software for SGML. -- Includes sections on Techniques from the Pros, highlighting examples of SGML documents from experienced users -- Thoroughly covers SGML elements, software, and more -- Extensive Index helps readers find information quickly and easily -- CD-ROM contains Panorama SGML browser, SGML parser, and many other tools!

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on World Wide Web

This paper proposes a new content type for communicating version information between Web browsers... more This paper proposes a new content type for communicating version information between Web browsers and clients. This is an enabling technology for a variety ofpossible WWW applications, including very flexible annotation and collaboration facilities. The relation of version management to consistency in hypertext systems is discussed in terms of how it meets some basic requirements for collaborative sys tems.

Introduction OHCO-1 Thesis: Text is an Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects Arguments Pragmatic E... more Introduction OHCO-1 Thesis: Text is an Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects Arguments Pragmatic Empirical Theoretical Counterexamples: Multiple Logical Hierarchies In the Old (SGML) View Genres Determine Text Objects The New (TEI) View: Perspectives Determine Text Objects Consequences of the Shift: There is no Unique Logical Hierarchy OHCO-2 Thesis: Perspectives Determine OHCOs Counterexamples: Enjambment for Instance OHCO-3 Thesis: Perspectives Can Be Decomposed into OHCOs Counterexamples: Strikeouts for Instance Practical Problems with the OHCO Thesis Conclusion Bibliography Notes

This paper proposes a method of versioning hypertext structures which are stored separately to ve... more This paper proposes a method of versioning hypertext structures which are stored separately to versionable objects. Key requirements are listed, including the need to maintain subsets of the hypertext structure which might be affected by edits to a given object version, and a means of associating these hypertext structure subsets to externally stored object versions. Central to meeting these requirements are the concepts of configuration and version association table.

Table of Contents Workshop Summary 1 Workshop Format 2 Version Control Issues For CSCW Applicatio... more Table of Contents Workshop Summary 1 Workshop Format 2 Version Control Issues For CSCW Applications 3 Summary of Workshop Discussions 3.1 Usability 3.2 Technology Enabling 3.3 Extensions Required 3.4 Environmental Factors Using Database Versions to Support Awareness in Group Interactions The problem 1 Introduction 2 Our Approach to the Awareness Problem 3 Conclusions and Next Steps Acknowledgments References Conceiving Collaborative Version Control for agent-based conceived Hypertext*

Acknowledgements The convention for acknowledgements seems be to put professional thanks first, a... more Acknowledgements The convention for acknowledgements seems be to put professional thanks first, and personal ones last, but I have decided to reverse that. I want to thank my family first. Throughout, my wife Elli has helped me, made time for my work at the cost of her own ...

Citeseer

We are exploring what it means to 'play' textual literature. We don't mean, by thi... more We are exploring what it means to 'play' textual literature. We don't mean, by this, playing games that incorporate textual material within their structure but rather textual and literary structures for which play is a primary means of interaction. We are conducting our exploration both ...

Department of English, UCSB

Liu, Alan, University of California Santa Barbara; Durand, David, Ingenta and Brown University; M... more Liu, Alan, University of California Santa Barbara; Durand, David, Ingenta and Brown University; Montfort, Nick, University of Pennsylvania; Proffitt, Merrilee, Research Libraries Group; Quin, Liam RE, W3C; Réty, Jean-Hugues, Université de Paris 8; et al.

The workshop entitled" The Role of Version Control in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Ap... more The workshop entitled" The Role of Version Control in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Applications" was held on September 10, 1995 in Stockholm, Sweden in conjunction with the ECSCW'95 conference. Version control, the ability to manage relationships between successive instances of artifacts, organize those instances into meaningful structures, and support navigation and other operations on those structures, is an important problem in CSCW applications. It has long been recognized as a critical issue for inherently ...

World Wide Web Journal, Dec 1, 1995

This paper proposes a new content-type for communicating version information between web-browsers... more This paper proposes a new content-type for communicating version information between web-browsers and clients. This is an enabling technology for a variety of possible WWW applications, including very flexible annotation and collaboration facilities. The relation of version management to consistency in hypertext systems is discussed in terms of how it meets some basic requirements for collaborative systems.

ACM Sigdoc Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation, 1997

THE WAY IN WHICH TEXT IS represented on a computer affects the kinds of uses to which it can be p... more THE WAY IN WHICH TEXT IS represented on a computer affects the kinds of uses to which it can be put by its creator and by subsequent users. The electronic document model currently in use is impoverished and restrictive. The authors argue that text is best represented as an Ordered Hierarchy of Content-based Objects,....

ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, 1997

7h15 art1c1e 15 my attempt t0 6r1ef1y 9ather and de5cr16e a var1ety 0f 5tan-dard5 w0rk that 15 re... more 7h15 art1c1e 15 my attempt t0 6r1ef1y 9ather and de5cr16e a var1ety 0f 5tan-dard5 w0rk that 15 re1evant t0 hypertext re5earch and pract1ce. 7h15 15 the f1r5t 1n5ta11ment 1n what w111 6ec0me an 0n90-1n9 eff0rt t0 9ather re1evant 1nf0rmat10n a60ut 5uch 5tandard5. 7h15 ...

Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on …, 1998

The MAPA system provides improved navigation facilities for large web sites. It extracts a hierar... more The MAPA system provides improved navigation facilities for large web sites. It extracts a hierarchical structure from an arbitrary web site, with no or minimal human assistance, and creates an interactive map of that site that can be used for orientation and navigation. ...

Journal of Computing in …

T HE WAY IN WHICH TEXT IS represented on a computer af- fects the kinds of uses to which it can b... more T HE WAY IN WHICH TEXT IS represented on a computer af- fects the kinds of uses to which it can be put by its creator and by subsequent users. The electronic document model currently in use is impoverished and restrictive. The authors argue that text is best represented as ...

This paper uncoveredsome key notions and implicit partial theoriesunderlying most previous theori... more This paper uncoveredsome key notions and implicit partial theoriesunderlying most previous theorizing about markup.The most important of these notions is theprimacy of "analytic perspectives," which we definedas a "natural family of methodology, theory,and analytical practice." Perspectives explain variousimplicit presuppositions of the simple hierarchicalapproach. In this paper, we use thesetheoretical results to examine how the basic notionsof hierarchical markup should be

The convention for acknowledgements seems to put professional thanks first, and per-sonal ones la... more The convention for acknowledgements seems to put professional thanks first, and per-sonal ones last, but I have decided to reverse that. I want to thank my family first. Throughout, my wife Elli has helped me, made time for my work at the cost of her own ease, and believed in the project and life after graduate school. Despina has provided relief and joy and put up with a father busier than she deserves. My parents have had encouraged me, advised me, and shared encouraging stories about their own dissertation experiences, in very different disciplines. My brother John has encouraged me throughout and often reminds me that people outside the academy are interested in this stuff as well. Many people have given ideas or endured my long ramblings on editing and hypertext. I’d like to thank Steve DeRose, Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, Jeremy Bornstein, and the rest of the CHUG gang for starting me back down the road of text and hypertext. Steve gave me a wealth of detailed feedback on the d...

From the Publisher: The explosive growth of HTML with its role in the World Wide Web has created ... more From the Publisher: The explosive growth of HTML with its role in the World Wide Web has created a whole new market for SGML products and knowledge. This thorough guide to SGML covers the key elements needed to create and use online documents, and emphasizes the use of new easy-to-use software for SGML. -- Includes sections on Techniques from the Pros, highlighting examples of SGML documents from experienced users -- Thoroughly covers SGML elements, software, and more -- Extensive Index helps readers find information quickly and easily -- CD-ROM contains Panorama SGML browser, SGML parser, and many other tools!

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on World Wide Web

This paper proposes a new content type for communicating version information between Web browsers... more This paper proposes a new content type for communicating version information between Web browsers and clients. This is an enabling technology for a variety ofpossible WWW applications, including very flexible annotation and collaboration facilities. The relation of version management to consistency in hypertext systems is discussed in terms of how it meets some basic requirements for collaborative sys tems.

Introduction OHCO-1 Thesis: Text is an Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects Arguments Pragmatic E... more Introduction OHCO-1 Thesis: Text is an Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects Arguments Pragmatic Empirical Theoretical Counterexamples: Multiple Logical Hierarchies In the Old (SGML) View Genres Determine Text Objects The New (TEI) View: Perspectives Determine Text Objects Consequences of the Shift: There is no Unique Logical Hierarchy OHCO-2 Thesis: Perspectives Determine OHCOs Counterexamples: Enjambment for Instance OHCO-3 Thesis: Perspectives Can Be Decomposed into OHCOs Counterexamples: Strikeouts for Instance Practical Problems with the OHCO Thesis Conclusion Bibliography Notes

This paper proposes a method of versioning hypertext structures which are stored separately to ve... more This paper proposes a method of versioning hypertext structures which are stored separately to versionable objects. Key requirements are listed, including the need to maintain subsets of the hypertext structure which might be affected by edits to a given object version, and a means of associating these hypertext structure subsets to externally stored object versions. Central to meeting these requirements are the concepts of configuration and version association table.

Table of Contents Workshop Summary 1 Workshop Format 2 Version Control Issues For CSCW Applicatio... more Table of Contents Workshop Summary 1 Workshop Format 2 Version Control Issues For CSCW Applications 3 Summary of Workshop Discussions 3.1 Usability 3.2 Technology Enabling 3.3 Extensions Required 3.4 Environmental Factors Using Database Versions to Support Awareness in Group Interactions The problem 1 Introduction 2 Our Approach to the Awareness Problem 3 Conclusions and Next Steps Acknowledgments References Conceiving Collaborative Version Control for agent-based conceived Hypertext*

Acknowledgements The convention for acknowledgements seems be to put professional thanks first, a... more Acknowledgements The convention for acknowledgements seems be to put professional thanks first, and personal ones last, but I have decided to reverse that. I want to thank my family first. Throughout, my wife Elli has helped me, made time for my work at the cost of her own ...

Citeseer

We are exploring what it means to 'play' textual literature. We don't mean, by thi... more We are exploring what it means to 'play' textual literature. We don't mean, by this, playing games that incorporate textual material within their structure but rather textual and literary structures for which play is a primary means of interaction. We are conducting our exploration both ...

Department of English, UCSB

Liu, Alan, University of California Santa Barbara; Durand, David, Ingenta and Brown University; M... more Liu, Alan, University of California Santa Barbara; Durand, David, Ingenta and Brown University; Montfort, Nick, University of Pennsylvania; Proffitt, Merrilee, Research Libraries Group; Quin, Liam RE, W3C; Réty, Jean-Hugues, Université de Paris 8; et al.

The workshop entitled" The Role of Version Control in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Ap... more The workshop entitled" The Role of Version Control in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Applications" was held on September 10, 1995 in Stockholm, Sweden in conjunction with the ECSCW'95 conference. Version control, the ability to manage relationships between successive instances of artifacts, organize those instances into meaningful structures, and support navigation and other operations on those structures, is an important problem in CSCW applications. It has long been recognized as a critical issue for inherently ...

World Wide Web Journal, Dec 1, 1995

This paper proposes a new content-type for communicating version information between web-browsers... more This paper proposes a new content-type for communicating version information between web-browsers and clients. This is an enabling technology for a variety of possible WWW applications, including very flexible annotation and collaboration facilities. The relation of version management to consistency in hypertext systems is discussed in terms of how it meets some basic requirements for collaborative systems.

ACM Sigdoc Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation, 1997

THE WAY IN WHICH TEXT IS represented on a computer affects the kinds of uses to which it can be p... more THE WAY IN WHICH TEXT IS represented on a computer affects the kinds of uses to which it can be put by its creator and by subsequent users. The electronic document model currently in use is impoverished and restrictive. The authors argue that text is best represented as an Ordered Hierarchy of Content-based Objects,....

ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, 1997

7h15 art1c1e 15 my attempt t0 6r1ef1y 9ather and de5cr16e a var1ety 0f 5tan-dard5 w0rk that 15 re... more 7h15 art1c1e 15 my attempt t0 6r1ef1y 9ather and de5cr16e a var1ety 0f 5tan-dard5 w0rk that 15 re1evant t0 hypertext re5earch and pract1ce. 7h15 15 the f1r5t 1n5ta11ment 1n what w111 6ec0me an 0n90-1n9 eff0rt t0 9ather re1evant 1nf0rmat10n a60ut 5uch 5tandard5. 7h15 ...

Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on …, 1998

The MAPA system provides improved navigation facilities for large web sites. It extracts a hierar... more The MAPA system provides improved navigation facilities for large web sites. It extracts a hierarchical structure from an arbitrary web site, with no or minimal human assistance, and creates an interactive map of that site that can be used for orientation and navigation. ...

Journal of Computing in …

T HE WAY IN WHICH TEXT IS represented on a computer af- fects the kinds of uses to which it can b... more T HE WAY IN WHICH TEXT IS represented on a computer af- fects the kinds of uses to which it can be put by its creator and by subsequent users. The electronic document model currently in use is impoverished and restrictive. The authors argue that text is best represented as ...

This paper uncoveredsome key notions and implicit partial theoriesunderlying most previous theori... more This paper uncoveredsome key notions and implicit partial theoriesunderlying most previous theorizing about markup.The most important of these notions is theprimacy of "analytic perspectives," which we definedas a "natural family of methodology, theory,and analytical practice." Perspectives explain variousimplicit presuppositions of the simple hierarchicalapproach. In this paper, we use thesetheoretical results to examine how the basic notionsof hierarchical markup should be