From Hypertext to Cross-Media Information Spaces (original) (raw)

Towards Cross-Media Information Spaces and Architectures

2019

The efficient management and retrieval of information via dedicated devices and data structures has been investigated since the early days of Vannevar Bush's seminal article As We May Think introducing the Memex. However, nowadays information is usually fragmented across different media types, devices as well as digital and physical environments, and we are often struggling to retrieve specific information. We discuss three main issues to be addressed when developing solutions for managing information in these co-called cross-media information spaces. First, we have a look at an extensible cross-media linking solution based on the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel where information can be integrated across applications, devices as well as digital and physical information environments. We then outline some of the limitations of existing digital document formats which are often just a simulation of paper documents and their affordances on desktop computers, and discuss more flexible document representations for cross-media information spaces. Further, new forms of human-information interaction and cross-media user interfaces—including some recent work on dynamic data physicalisation—are discussed. A number of research artefacts are used to illustrate different aspects of the presented data-centric approach for cross-media information spaces and architectures. Last but not least, we provide an outlook on how the embedding of the presented concepts at the level of an operating system might ultimately lead to new possibilities for cross-media information management and innovative forms of human-information interaction.

Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

2007

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 18th International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia'Hypertext, The Web, and Beyond: Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference'. The conference takes place in the Manchester Museum in Manchester, UK. The museum is located within the University of Manchester campus in the centre of Manchester.

Hypertext Configurations - Genres in Networked Digital Media. Preprint

The article presents a conceptual framework for distinguishing different sorts of heterogeneous digital materials. The hypothesis is that a wide range of heterogeneous data resources can be characterised and classified due to their particular configurations of hypertext features such as scripts, links, interactive processes, and time scaling’s, and that the hypertext configuration is a major but not sole source of messiness of big data. The notion of hypertext will be revalidated, placed at the centre of the interpretation of networked digital media, and used in the analysis of the fast growing amounts of heterogeneous digital collections, assemblages and corpora. The introduction summarises the wider background of a fast changing data landscape. The article is a revised and expanded version of a presentation given at the RESAW Conference on Web Archives as Scholarly Sources, Aarhus University, Denmark, 8–10 June 2015. Keywords: Hypertext, Multiple Source Knowledge Systems, Hypertext genres,