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Topic:
hypertext nodes
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information as facts
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knowledge as interrelated facts
Topic:
knowledge representation by frames
Topic:
problems with fragmentation in hypertext

Summary

A hypertext node may represent an idea or fact. It is similar to a row of a database table, with text instead of data. The markup is usually explicit.

If a node is a fact, then other nodes must provide context (cbb 4/07)

Quotations
Quote: a text fragment contains one or more information units, i.e., an idea or fact [»shasD_1985]
Quote: a Telesophy query produces summaries of each information unit (like titles) [»schaBR11_1987]
Quote: a TEXTNET node is a chunk (primitive piece of text) or a tocs (entry in a table of contents) [»trigRH1_1986]
Quote: a Hypertext node can be an object that represents an idea; it is linked, moved, or modified independently [»conkJ9_1987]
Quote: fragmentation is important to Hypertext; ideally into independent concepts such as footnotes, references, annotations [»raymDR7_1988]
Quote: an atom is an indivisible unit of information; a choice is a string of atoms that answers a question
[»shasD4_1986]

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Topic: hypertext nodes (19 items)
Topic: information as facts (21 items)
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