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Template for hypertext-format submissions

One of the wonderful things about ACM Hypertext is that it gives authors of scholarly works to create their articles in hypertext format. So far ACM conferences have accepted five articles in hypertext format. Hypertext explicitly requests full paper submissions in that form.

There are many great ways to use hypertext for your submission. Which of those methods you use depends on your intention. Here's what's been done so far:

Deena Larsen and Richard E. Higgason [1] used Flash, and
David Kolb [2] used a combination of tools, including StorySpace, to create articles for HT'04 that were, for the most part, tailored to their specific articles.
Also in 2004, Mona Noor and I [3] published a hypertext article in HTML using a format that was specifically intended to be re-used in other articles.
In 2005 Anders Fagerjord [4] presented a brilliant hypertext (written largely in HTML) that used stretchtext to discuss stretchtext!
Last year Paul De Bra, David Smits, and Natalia Stash [5] ran an adaptive hypertext system on a server to present their article.

If you want to write a hypertext article for this year's HT conference, one way to do it is to use an updated version of the design I developed for the article Mona and I published in 2004. I've put a template to help anyone who wants to engage the power of hypertext to express their ideas at http://users.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/HT07/readme.html.

If you decide to use the template for your submission please note the source of the template (or the original article) since ACM owns copyright of the original article.

What other templates and recommendations do you have?

Labels: full papers, hypertext, scholarly publishing, submissions

posted by: Jamie Blustein on Friday, February 16, 2007