Today is Day 2 of Hypertext and bright early in the morning, the first session is Algorithms and Methods. The first talk is Assisting Two-Way Mapping Generation in Hypermedia Workspace by Haowei Hsieh, Katherine Pauls, Amber Jansen, Gautam Nimmagadda, and Frank Shipman. Here, the authors create a Mapping Designer for helping with two-way mapping generation, and can become a good instructional tool. This is for creating 2-way mappings for database for making a spatial hypertext system.
The second talk is Analysis of Graphs for Digital Preservation Suitability by Charles Cartiledge and Michael Nelson. The problem is the pictures that we collect, will they still exist? So the problem is can web objects be constructed to act in an autonomous manner to create a network of web objects that live on the web and can be expected to outlive the people an institutions that created them? They use graphs to figure out how to reconstruct the graph when being attacked so it is self-sustaining. Their solution is creating a USW graph.
The third and last talk in this session is iMapping – A Zooming User Interface Approach for Personal and Semantic Knowledge Management by Heiko Haller and Andreas Abecker. This paper won the Ted Nelson Best Newcomer award. Heiko is using the iMapping tool to show his presentation, which is really cool. The problem is dealing with knowledge management with gathering and processing knowledge from our brains and from computers. Using visual helps to support mental cognition. Mind maps are a way of doing this but overrated. Spatial hypertext can be used but it has no explicit links. With iMaps, you can avoid tangle like you have in a graph, and you can use hierarchy by nesting. This iMapping tool looks really nice for zooming in and out and for doing notetaking, and personal knowledge management. It is actually really nice for doing presentations.
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