What is Hypermedia Scholarship?
From Assessing to Addressing The original subtitle for this was Assessing the Value of Hypermedia Scholarship. In preparing this, it became clear that it is simply too early to begin that sort of assessment. We are far enough along, however, to begin to summarize and analyze some of the more ambitious attempts to “address” the problems and possibilities of Scholarly Hypermedia. To do so requires some definition of the terms. What is linking? I will show many examples of linking as enabled by the hypertext markup language (html) , provide a host of meditations on the intellectual consequences of the application of linking technologies, and demonstrate how some of the new (circa: 2002) browsers allow for sophisticated linking using new mark-up languages such as xml, sgml, and hytime that begin to realize some of the theoretical work envisioned by the hypertext community What is thinking? According to Carl Smith, Professor of English and American Studies and History at Northwestern, in hi
