Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 404.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:28:45 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Memex and Beyond (www.cs.brown.edu/memex/)
The following is posted on behalf of Rosemary Simpson (Brown). --WM
> The Memex and Beyond website (www.cs.brown.edu/memex/) is a
> major research, educational, and collaborative web site integrating
> the historical record of and current research in hypermedia. The
> name honors the 1945 publication of Vannevar Bush's article "As
> We May Think" in which he proposed a hypertext engine called the
> Memex, and the web site is an outgrowth of the 1995 Brown/MIT
> Bush Symposium honoring the 50th anniversary of its publication.
> It also contains the complete text of Andries van Dam's keynote
> speech for the first ACM hypertext conference, Hypertext '87.
> The site is very tightly interlinked through graphical, spatial, and
> textual representations of the relationships among the people,
> projects, institutions, publications, conferences, and themes that
> comprise the hypermedia community.
>
> The website was started four and half years ago and never finished.
> We are embarking on a new hypertext research project that has as
> its first requirement the completion of the website as a testbed for
> the software we are developing. In addition to completing the
global
> index and people, project, institution, and conference link
> structures for all the ACM Hypertext conferences from 1987 -
> 2000, we will be adding complete citation base for those
> conferences as well as providing guided trails and concept maps.
>
> Since this website is intended to be a tool for researchers, we
> invite comments on how we can best address those needs within the
> framework we have outlined above.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Rosemary Michelle Simpson <rms@cs.brown.edu>
> Resources Coordinator, Brown University Computer Graphics group
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