Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 300.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:28:07 +0100 (BST)
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: recommended readings?
I would be most grateful for recommendations of essays (online or
otherwise) on the following subjects:
1. the effects of hypertextual linking on compositional practice, by
which I mean, how using hypertextual links changes the way one writes
and esp how such linking influences or could influence the design of
scholarly forms, such as the critical essay, edition, commentary etc.
2. the design of more sophisticated linking than we currently have,
which is to say not merely named or typified links (as already
implemented in the old PARC NoteCards software) but links with other
attributes to indicate, for example, scope and what one might call
intensity or tentativeness. I would be esp glad to learn of an essay
based on a model for any conventional form, literary allusion being
perhaps the most comprehensive and difficult.
3. the discrepancies between scholarly forms in which reference is a
primary intellectual tool and anything we could conceivably do with
computing as we now have it.
The more one thinks about the hypertextual link, the cruder an
instrument it appears. How subtle and various by contrast (and of course
how problematic) are the ways in which one can in print say "see X"!
Many thanks.
Yours,
WM
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