- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 15:42:55 -0600
- To: Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>
- CC: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, liberte@w3.org
Eric Hellman wrote:
>
> (see
> http://www.openly.com/SLinkS/ and http://www.openly.com/link.openly/ )
Interesting... "Linkability is rapidly becoming an essential feature of
the
21st Century Scholarly Journal."
Have you ever seen this quote?
Pick up your pen, mouse or favorite pointing device and press it on
a reference in this document - perhaps to the author's name, or
organization, or some related work. Suppose you are directly
presented with the background material - other papers, the
author's coordinates, the organization's address and its entire
telephone directory. Suppose each of these documents has the
same property of being linked to other original documents all over
the world. You would have at your fingertips all you need to know
about electronic publishing, high-energy physics or for that matter
Asian culture. If you are reading this article on paper, you can
only
dream, but read on.
It's from the first (as far as I know) scholarly publication about the
Web:
World-Wide Web: The Information Universe
Berners-Lee, T., et al., (1992), Electronic Networking: Research,
Applications and Policy, Vol 1 No 2, Meckler, Westport CT, Spring
1992
(postscript copy at
http://www.w3.org/History/1992/ENRAP/Article_9202.ps )
--
Dan Connolly, W3C
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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