Hypertext News
Hypertext 2007 Submissions Now Open
The Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2007) is now open for submissions. Seven programmes with more than 40 designated areas are waiting for your input. They include:
- Hypertext Models & Theory
- Practical Hypertext
- Hypertext & Society
- Hypertext & The Person
- Hypertext, Culture & Communication
- Posters
- Student Research Competition
The programmes indicate many intersections with other fields of interest, not only in computer science. Decades of research and development has lifted hypertext from its esoteric existence to a higher level. It is no longer exclusively for computer geeks, but rather provides solutions potentially for everyone who deals with connecting information. (These must be quite many.) This includes people working in the fields of natural sciences, humanities, or knowledge management and covers new developments, such as social networking or Web 2.0. People who work with structures or knowledge are of interest for hypertext and hypertext is of interest for people working on structures or knowledge.
This general relevance of hypertext for various fields of interest is also expressed by this year's conference theme: Hypertext, The Web, and Beyond: Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference. It expresses the diversity in research directions we have in hypertext, but in a very positive way. Diversity means broadening our horizons, opening our eyes. It also pays attention to the broad application of hypertext technology or paradigms outside computer science. The big challenge is to connect the different ideas so that we gain from synergy. At the end, however, we unify in our common goal: providing means to people for organising their knowledge.
I am looking forward for your submission, whatever area it has its focus on.
Labels: diversity, humanities, hypertext, Hypertext 2007, knowledge management, natural sciences, submissions
posted by: Submission Chair on Monday, March 26, 2007
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