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The Practical Hypertext Autonomous Programme covers a range of topics that have been popular in the Hypertext conferences in the past, and we anticipate it being well-subscribed again this year. According to our records, there has already been a lot of activity in the viewing of our programme's web pages and we have even had our first submission, a full six weeks early!

We have collected an excellent programme committee whose expertise will help us choose the best and most interesting papers for the Practical Hypertext Programme. Some are already well-known to Hypertext conference past attendees, while others are new to the conference series and bring us their expertise in adjacent areas such as adaptive hypermedia and information retrieval. This reflects the contributions of other related areas to hypertext research, but also the way hypertext research contributes to other areas - such as how links are used in page ranking on the Web, for example.

For the Practical Hypertext Programme, we're looking for papers that may be about creating or maintaining everyday hypertext, or how practical hypertext improves other work or leisure pursuits. As long as your paper broadly covers this, then we are interested in receiving it for review!

Labels: autonomous programme, Hypertext 2007, practical hypertext, submissions

posted by: Practical Hypertext Chair on Thursday, April 12, 2007

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:

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