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From Open Hypermedia to Virtual Signposts -

Software for Knowledge Sharing

Kristine Stougård ThomsenHypergenic

[email protected]


Hypergenic A/S, history

Research project 1997-2000• The Danish National Centre for IT Research • Aarhus University (Open Hypermedia research group)• Tele Danmark Internet

Company start up: 01.12.2000Owners:

• Mjølner Informatics, TDC Innovation, 6 employees


Hypermedia Systems

Hypermedia pioneers: • Vannevar Bush - Memex • Ted Nelson - the Docuverse, Xanadu• Douglas Engelbart – NLS• ….

Tim Berners Lee: World Wide Web


Current WWW limitations

• WWW does not support user cotrolled organisation of documents in new hierarchies or categories – e.g. Guidet tours

• WWW is primarily a media for publishing• WWW does not allow users to create links from and into

documents that they do not own• WWW documents must be changed in order to create links

from them or into them


Tim Berners-Lee at WWW8

Goal: Intercreative space• As you can read, so can you write • If you notice a connection, make a link • Collaborative editing: research done, products

nowhere? • Software hard • Needs authentication, PUT, catch lost update,

version management, etc.. • Amaya + Jigsaw progress


Dynamic use of Web ressources

Examples• Teachers/advisors find and annotate web-based

ressources to their students/customers• Students write project reports with detailed

references and overviews over web ressources.• Journalists point to annotated details in web soures

in their research


Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS)

• Navigational structure separated from content• Links (anchored, multiheaded, bi-directional)• Annotations• Paths & guidet tours etc.

• Open for integration with 3’rd party applications• Browsers• Office applications etc.

• Example: Webwise from Aarhus University


Link object

I medfør af § 93, stk. 2 i bekendtgørelse nr. 1053 af 18. december 1995 om levnedsmiddelhygiejne og egenkontrol m.v. og § 20, stk. 2 i bekendtgørelse nr. 931 af 6. december 1995 om materialer og genstande bestemt til at komme i berøring med levnedsmidler fastsættes:

Ændringsbekendtgørelse nr. 1053 af 18. juli 1997 om .....

Webvise open hypermedia system– papers at WWW8 and WWW9• Portfolios with links and notes are

stored in separate XML files• One or more portfolios on top of the

same Web documents• Create links between Web-pages,

MS Word and Excel-documents, PDF documents etc.

• The created notes and links are shown on top of existing material (incl. third party documents )

• Create guided tours through annotated material


Commercializing OHS - challenges

• Market maturity• Identify mature segments to address

• Functionality• Simplify and target to needs

• Terminology• Define non-academic, use-related terms

• Wrap up the producs• Ensure product maturity, finish


The first result: Virtual Signposts

• Navigation structures separated from content• Graphical editor integrated with web-browser• Collect links to a signpost by dragging from the browser to

the editor• Organize and annotate• Press a button to generate a leight-weight presentation:

• Metro map with lines• Remote Control – (e.g. Guided tour, virtual library, mind map)• Decision Tree

• Demo


Signpost editor - WebNize

Drag and drop from

browser to editor


A WebNize generated Metro


Generated Metro line


Remote Control or Guidet tour

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Architecture of the System

DDE


Next step: Highlight annotation tool

• Functionality • Organize and annotate material in depth• Link / associate between materials• Share the result with others

• Scenario• Exchange Student at Aarhus School of Business• BA Thesis on Danish Political and Social Iissues

• Demo


WebNize Highlighter annotation tool

The annotation is highlighted, and the text is shown on mouse-over


Market for OHS

• Education, e-learning, research• Empowering students – active learning• Web-based in depth research• E.g. FlexNet/IT-Vest, Center for Medicinsk Engelsk

• Knowledge management

• Business intelligence• Competitor analysis

End of presentationdemo?

WebNize is a line of standard products from Hypergenic

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Www.hypergenic.com1 From Open Hypermedia to Virtual Signposts - Software for Knowledge Sharing Kristine Stougård Thomsen Hypergenic [email protected].

Documents

web documents

research slide

www documents

finish slide

world wide web slide

aarhus university slide

annotated material slide

web soures