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Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical disk
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Date: 11 Nov 88 20:18:07 GMT
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In article <1804@garth.UUCP> fenwick@garth.UUCP (Stephen Fenwick) writes:
|In article <4105@encore.UUCP> bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein) writes:
|>The point of putting books on-line is [...] to make them accessible to new 
|>generations of tools, [...]
|
|The only problem with this is keeping everything on file in a manner that
|allows users to find what they need.  This is non-trivial, as the information
|content of a work may not be limited by the author's conception of the its
|content.  Watch the PBS series "Connections" to see what I mean.  Machines
|are currently very good a fast data retrieval, but decidedly bad at making
|inferences about the data that they store.

With a general purpose hypertext system, humans would make the machine
record the connections as they were discovered.  See alt.hypertext.

From what I've read here in comp.sys.next, the "Digital Librarian" is not
a general purpose hypertext system.  I'm not even sure it's hypertext.

Scott Peterson  --  OMSO Software Engineering  --  Intel,  Hillsboro OR

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