- From: Andrew Fitzhugh <andrew.fitzhugh@hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:38:42 -0700
- To: <www-rdf-dspace@w3.org>
> [Andrew Fitzhugh] > ... it may just seem quaint that we were once so enamored of clicking on > hyperlinks in HTML documents ... > > [wmj] > A *crude model* would be: selecting named-pages/screens one at a time. > > [Andrew Fitzhugh] > ... in my own work the vision of future information networks is more > decentralized than today's web. > > [wmj] > How your "vision" is different from *crude model*? I'm afraid this might be getting a bit off topic so I'll try to stay brief. When there is semantic markup, links may be authored implicitly or automatically. A photo marked with contextual information such as time and location may be published with no explicit hyperlink. When I see the photo, an application could, however, offer me access (via some sort of navigation) to content that is related in time and/or location. In addition, the links offered may depend on my local environment (museum, friend's home, train, ...). My group (Nomadic Computing Department) also focuses on bridging the physical and virtual worlds, where information access is accomplished via non-browser mechanisms, often through physical interactions. The constrained browser navigation model and highly centralized services aren't well suited to these scenarios, though I've always thought SIMILE and its precursors were more general and quite relevant. -- Andy
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