Collaboration is the future of hyperlink creation
"The following post is submitted by Dr. Alex Primo of the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
Alex writes: My research group and I have been working since 2003 in a project that allows the collaborative creation of multidirectional Web links. We suppose this new concept can be a new step ahead in Web hypertextuality.
Today, associative Web links (the ones within paragraphs) are unidirectional vectors, that is, they take users to a single predetermined destination.
Co-links project proposes a new concept that surpasses that limitation, allowing the creation of multidirectional links. And more: it allows users to collaboratively create new links, and to add new destinations to a pre-existing link (transforming it into a one-to-may link). Link creation, thus, does not depend on knowledge of any coding language and is permitted to any Web surfer, not just the programmer or owner of the page.
During 2004, we have presented some papers at important conferences about the project and its impact on reading, cooperation, hypertext and education"
Alex writes: My research group and I have been working since 2003 in a project that allows the collaborative creation of multidirectional Web links. We suppose this new concept can be a new step ahead in Web hypertextuality.
Today, associative Web links (the ones within paragraphs) are unidirectional vectors, that is, they take users to a single predetermined destination.
Co-links project proposes a new concept that surpasses that limitation, allowing the creation of multidirectional links. And more: it allows users to collaboratively create new links, and to add new destinations to a pre-existing link (transforming it into a one-to-may link). Link creation, thus, does not depend on knowledge of any coding language and is permitted to any Web surfer, not just the programmer or owner of the page.
During 2004, we have presented some papers at important conferences about the project and its impact on reading, cooperation, hypertext and education"
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