hypermedia

Abstract: It has been nearly sixty years since Vannevar Bush's essay, "As We May Think," was first published in The Atlantic Monthly, an article that foreshadowed and possibly invented hypertext. While much has been written about this seminal piece, little has been said about the argument Bush presented to justify the creation of the memex, his proposed personal information device. This paper revisits the article in light of current technological and social trends. It notes that Bush's argument centered around the problem of information overload and observes that in the intervening years, despite massive technological innovation, the problem has only become more extreme. It goes on to argue that today's manifestation of information overload will require not just better management of information but the creation of space and time for thinking and reflection, an objective that is consonant with Bush's original aims

 information overload;  digital libraries;  hypermedia;  hypertext;  memex;  information management;  personal information device;  vannevar bush;  

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Abstract: The ESP2Net project is developing technologies that enable effective collaborative scientific data sharing to support collaboration among scientists, accelerate production of scientific data products, and improve understanding of the science. We have defined a Scientific Experiment Markup Language (SEML) to capture scientific experiments in hypermedia documents as a basic unit of information sharing. A collection of SEML documents can be viewed as an online electronic experiment logbook that captures the entire experiment experience by including the process and interrelationships between experiments to allow an experiment to be re-created. Complementary means of sharing the experiences from scientific experiments (browsing, searching, dissemination, and mining) are provided by integrating OASIS transparent distributed scientific object access, Conquest dynamic distributed query processing services, and active information dissemination services introduced in semantic multicast

 Data mining;  internet;  distributed databases;  scientific information systems;  query processing;  hypermedia;  information dissemination;  page description languages;  Conquest dynamic distributed query processing services;  ESP2Net project;  OASIS transparent distributed scientific object access;  SEML documents;  Scientific Experiment Markup Language;  active information dissemination services;  collaborative scientific data sharing;  hypermedia documents;  information sharing;  online electronic experiment logbook;  scientific data products;  scientific experiments;  semantic multicast;  

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