Re: One hell of a use-case

From: John J. Deneen (jjdeneen@ricochet.net)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 20:02:16 PDT


See "ComMentor" - Shared Web Annotations as a Platform for Third-Party
Value-Added Information Providers: Architecture, Protocols, and Usage
Examples.
http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/pub/reports/commentor.html

"The idea of a system enabling a multiplicity of independent individuals to
create lightweight value-added "trails" through a document space was
envisaged most prominently by Vannevar Bush as early as 1945 [BUSH]. The
ComMentor system can be thought of as a tool which such "trail blazers" use
to add value to contents, and which other people use to find guidance based
on these human-created super-structures. The overall architecture can be seen
as a platform where value-added providers can provide their services (as a
third player next to content providers and end users)."

Eric Armstrong wrote:

> Can you provide a short synopsis and an evaluation?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Grant Bowman wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone looked at this recently? I just read it for the first time.
> >
> > As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
> >
> > http://www.histech.rwth-aachen.de/www/quellen/bush/as-we-ma.html
> >
> > --
> > -- Grant Bowman grant@suse.com
> > -- SuSE +1-510-628-3380 x5027
> > -- 580 Second Street, Suite 210 fax +1-510-628-3381
> > -- Oakland, CA 94607 http://www.suse.com



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