Birds of a Feather Sessions
The Birds Of A Feather programme is a community discussion forum where people with similar interests can flock together and discuss their research. The following sessions have been arranged for Hypertext 2007.
XanaduSpace: Generalized Documents and Richly Interconnected Information Structures
Document representation on computers typically focuses on simulations of paper. However, hypertext implies far greater potential. The BOF will include details and discussion on Ted Nelson's recent work on XanaduSpace, which knits together a 3D platform for richly interrelated media, transliterary structures, and zzstructured information.
Chair: Ted Nelson
Date: Wednesday 12th September 2007
Time: Morning
Web Science
WebScience is a research agenda focused on understanding how decentralised information structures and informal and unplanned informational links between people, agents, databases, organisations and other actors and resources can meet the informational needs of important drivers such as e-science and e-government. How an essentially decentralised system can have such performance designed into it is the key question of Web Science. The BOF will gather people interested in learning more about Web Science, and in discussing the implications of this agenda.
Chair: Jim Whitehead
Date: Tuesday 11th September 2007
Time: 17:00
Graduate Student
This year's Hypertext sees over 30 students attending the conference demonstrating that the field of hypertext is still a thriving, growing community that is important in the Web-based World. The graduate Student BOF is an informal gathering of all students attending Hypertext. The aim is for students to network with their peers, discuss their research and share ideas in a friendly setting.
Chair: Darren Lunn & Eleni Michailidou
Date: Monday 10th September 2007
Time: 17:00
Tinderbox
Tinderbox, a constructive hypertext system marketed by Eastgate Systems, offers researchers several interesting opportunities. This BOF session seeks to provide a venue for informal exploration of affordances and collaborations in several areas.
- Tinderbox provides a simple, flexible spatial hypertext environment with strong HTML and XML export facilities. Thus, Tinderbox can serve as a convenient front end for a variety of experiments in knowledge representation and the semantic Web.
- Tinderbox is widely employed by individuals and groups to do real work. Some aspects of Tinderbox -- prototype inheritance and spatial hypertext among them -- have not been widely studied beyond the context of computer science. User studies might reveal interesting information about information ecologies and representational strategies in feral hypertext.
- Tinderbox offers interesting hooks to extend its agents, actions, and export mechanisms through external processes. Tinderbox is designed to allow additional extensions to be added with relative ease. Applications to research range from instrumented Tinderbox variants to embedded Tinderbox and novel Tinderbox export environments.
Chair: Mark Bernstein
Date: Tuesday 11 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 15:30