Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems

NoteCards, developed by a team at Xerox PARC, was designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections. This article presents NoteCards as a foil against which to explore some of the major limitations of the current generation of hypermedia systems, and characterizes the issues that must be addressed in designing the next generation systems.

[1]  Ben Shneiderman,et al.  User interface design for the Hyperties electronic encyclopedia , 1987 .

[2]  Lee A. Hollaar.  The Utah Text Retrieval Project - A Status Report , 1984, SIGIR.

[3]  Karen E. Smith,et al.  Building a timeline editor from prefab parts: the architecture of an object-oriented application , 1986, OOPSLA 1986.

[4]  Robert M. Akscyn,et al.  Experience with the ZOG Human-Computer Interface System , 1984, Int. J. Man Mach. Stud..

[5]  Douglas C. Engelbart,et al.  A research center for augmenting human intellect , 1968, AFIPS Fall Joint Computing Conference.

[6]  Robert Cooley Angell.  Bellevue , 1951, American Journal of Sociology.

[7]  Mayer D. Schwartz,et al.  Neptune: a hypertext system for CAD applications , 1986, SIGMOD '86.

[8]  Janet H. Walker,et al.  Document Examiner: delivery interface for hypertext documents , 1987, Hypertext.

[9]  Ben Shneiderman,et al.  User Interface Design and Evaluation for an Electronic Encyclopedia , 1987, Interacción.

[10]  Walt Scacchi,et al.  A hypertext system to manage software life cycle documents , 1988 .

[11]  Steven Feiner.  Seeing the forest for the trees: hierarchical displays of hypertext structures , 1988 .

[12]  Thomas P. Moran,et al.  A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AUTHORING USING NOTECARDS , 1986, SGCH.

[13]  Lucy A. Suchman,et al.  Supporting collaboration in notecards , 1986, CSCW '86.

[14]  Karen E. Smith,et al.  Intermedia: issues, strategies, and tactics in the design of a hypermedia document system , 1986, CSCW '86.

[15]  Raymond J. D'Amore,et al.  Complete statistical indexing of text by overlapping word fragments , 1982, SIGF.

[16]  Moshé M. Zloof.  Design Aspects of the Query-by-Example Data Base Management Language , 1978, JCDKB.

[17]  Michael C. Mozer,et al.  Inductive Information Retrieval Using Parallel Distributed Computation. , 1984 .

[18]  Melissa L. Monty.  TEMPORAL CONTEXT AND MEMORY FOR NOTES STORED IN THE COMPUTER , 1986, SGCH.

[19]  Mark Weiser,et al.  TEXTNET: a network-based approach to text handling , 1986, TOIS.

[20]  Daniel G. Bobrow,et al.  Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings , 1988, CACM.

[21]  Douglas C. Engelbart.  Authorship Provisions in Augment , 1984, COMPCON.

[22]  Mayer D. Schwartz,et al.  Contexts - A Partitioning Concept for Hypertext , 1987, ACM Trans. Inf. Syst..

[23]  Jay David Bolter,et al.  WE: A Writing Environment for Professionals, , 1986 .

[24]  Steven K. Feiner,et al.  An experimental system for creating and presenting interactive graphical documents , 1982, TOGS.

[25]  David Harel,et al.  On visual formalisms , 1988, CACM.

[26]  Randall H. Trigg,et al.  Notecards in a nutshell , 1986, CHI '87.

[27]  Ronald J. Brachman,et al.  An overview of the KL-ONE Knowledge Representation System , 1985 .

[28]  Alberto O. Mendelzon,et al.  A graphical query language supporting recursion , 1987, SIGMOD '87.

[29]  David G. Lowe,et al.  Synview: the design of a system for cooperative structuring of information , 1986, CSCW '86.

[30]  George P. Landow,et al.  Relationally encoded links and the rhetoric of hypertext , 1987, Hypertext.

[31]  Norman K. Meyrowitz.  Intermedia: The Architecture and Construction of an Object-Oriented Hypermedia System and Applications Framework , 1986, OOPSLA.

[32]  G. W. Furnas,et al.  Generalized fisheye views , 1986, CHI '86.

[33]  Daniel G. Bobrow,et al.  Object-Oriented Programming: Themes and Variations , 1989, AI Mag..

[34]  Daniel G. Bobrow,et al.  Definition Groups: Making Sources into First-Class Objects , 1987, Research Directions in Object-Oriented Programming.

[35]  Irene Greif,et al.  Data sharing in group work , 1987, CSCW '86.

[36]  Daniel G. Shapiro,et al.  RUBRIC: A System for Rule-Based Information Retrieval , 1985, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.