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Re: [Ref-Links] Re: [Discuss-DOI] Open for Business
Tony, I wonder whether you have any specific models in mind for
open linking? There is a long legacy of work in the hypertext community on
open linking, including Hyper-G as Arthur points out, much of which is
still ongoing. Initiatives such as OpenURL have acknowledged a debt to this
work. It's true that open linking has not created as much impact as the
Web's 'dumbed down' linking, and there is a degree of resentment about
that, but the work has raised many of the issues you refer to and should
not be ignored.
Steve Hitchcock
Open Citation (OpCit) Project <http://opcit.eprints.org/>
IAM Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Email: sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865
At 17:47 12/11/01 +0000, tony_hammond@harcourt.com wrote:
>Arthur:
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>The scope is *not* just hyperlinking. And not about HTML. It is more
>general. It is about enabling value-add services built upon agent-based
>technologies. We're looking to assert key *relationships* between the
>entities we've identified with a DOI and to make those associations
>publicly available as strategic (or open) links.
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>Regards,
>Tony
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>tony_hammond@harcourt.com wrote:
> > Now what if? What if instead of publishing just the link targets, we get
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> > "publish" complete links, ie we expose to public view the actual links.
> > This could be a useful strategy for a content provider who wants to
> > establish a relationship between entities in a platform independent
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>But the link source, at least in HTML, is not just a URL or URI, it's a
>location, a range of characters on the page. There was some extension of
>HTTP/HTML called Hyper-G a while back that I believe worked by keeping
>the links actually separate from the documents, but as far as I can tell
>it died out from being too complex to be useful. It seems to me to do
>anything of this sort you have to move to a hyperlinking model different
>from that of HTML, and that's not exactly going to be easy to persuade
>anyone to adopt, especially for relatively marginal gains.
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> Arthur Smith (apsmith@aps.org)
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