Navigation, access, and control using structured information

American Archivist

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 298-309

  Derose, Steven J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33746524082     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.60.3.0777u1361u62tqp6     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. 'International Organization for Standardization, ISO 8879: 1986(E). Information Processing-Text and Office Information Systems-Standard Generalized Markup Language.
2. Tor further analysis of document representation models and their characteristics, see Steven J. DeRose, David G. Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen H. Renear, "What is Text, Really?" Journal of Computing in Higher Education 1, no. 2 (1990): 3-26.
3. Ted Nelson, Computer Lib, rev. ed. (Redmond, Wash.: Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1987).
4. "James H. Coombs, Allen H. Renear, and Steven J. DeRose, "Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing," Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 30 (November 1987): 933-47.
5. University of Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style, 13th ed., 1982.
6. 'Frank W. Tompa, "What is (tagged) text?" Dictionaries in the Electronic Age: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary (Waterloo, Ont: University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED, 1989), 81-93.
7. Ursula LeGuin, "The Rule of Names," in A Treasury of Fantasy: Heroic Adventures in Imaginary Lands (New York: Avenal Books, 1981), 495-504. 'Information order is central to hypertext theory, though Ted Nelson's definition of hypertext as "nonsequential writing" seems to contradict this. I take Nelson's definition to mean writing that is not strictly sequential: not locked into a single sequence as imposed by the paper or film medium. Authors instead give their readers many choices-this is precisely where poor hypertext systems and documents most frequently fail. Yet even the most labyrinthine hypertext is highly sequential. Even Faulkner must make some passages prerequisite to others. So while hypertext goes radically beyond the idea of a single sequence or even a small number, it does not overcome time, language, and cognition. This is why authors carefully craft hypertext links, rather than merely having a computer draw and quarter the texts.
8. 'For more information on XML see. http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml
9. C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard, eds., Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (Chicago, Oxford: Text Encoding Initiative, 1994). Also available on-line from ftp://ftp-tei.uic.edu/ pub/tei
10. and many other places, most of which are pointed to from http://www.sil.org/sgml/acadapps.htmlttei (part of Robin Cover's extensive SGML information guide).
11. "Lisa R. Horowitz, CETH Workshop on Documenting Electronic Texts, May 16-18, 1994
12. Radisson Hotel, Somerset, N.J., Technical Report #2 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, 1994).