Clashing cultures? Linking literature and hypertext at post-16

Linking and searching within hypertext

Hypertext represents an attractive and new way of storing information in a computer. Like any new approach, this leads to the challenge of integrating the new practices with the old ones, and our aim here is to investigate one instance of this. Before going into details, however, we shall give a brief introduction to the nature of hypertext as an aid to readers who are unfamiliar with the concept.

Toward a Post - Critical Theory of Hypertext Running head : Toward a post - critical theory of hypertext

Hypertext Authoring for Linking Relevant Segments of Related Instruction Manuals

Recently manuals of industrial products become large and often consist of separated volumes. In reading such individual but related manuals, we must consider the relation among segments, which contain explanations of sequences of operation. In this paper, we propose methods for linking relevant segments in hypertext authoring of a set of related manuals. Our method is based on the similarity ca...

From User Access Patterns to Dynamic Hypertext Linking

Abstract: This paper describes an approach for automatically classifying visitors of a web site according to their access patterns. User access logs are examined to discover clusters of users that exhibit similar information needs; e.g., users that access similar pages. This may result in a better understanding of how users visit the site, and lead to an improved organization of the hypertext d...

Post-structuralism, hypertext, and the World Wide Web

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of post-structuralist theory to understanding hypertext and the World Wide Web, and the challenge posed by digital information technology to the practices of the information profession. Design/methodology/approach – The method adopted is that of a critical study. Findings – The paper argues for the importance of post-structuralis...