[Air-l] resources (non-linear WWW)

[Michael Bieber]

Hi Susannah (and Everyone),

The field of hypertext and hypermedia studies the non-linear nature 
of information.  The nodes (documents) and links result in a 
non-linear network of information.

(A shameless self-reference to a definition of hypertext in the 
Encyclopedia of CS:
  http://web.njit.edu/~bieber/pub/cs-encyclopedia/csencyclopedia00.pdf)

There's been a lot of work done in the hypertext community on 
analyzing hypertext networks, and the best thing to do would be to 
look through the ACM Hypertext conference proceedings.  Some work has 
focused on analyzing link depth.  Over the last years the hypertext 
community has been analyzing networks in terms of structural and 
navigation "patterns".

  A lot of this work has been carried on further by the burgeoning 
field of Web Engineering:
e.g., http://www.webengineering.org/
which has its own set of conferences and journals now.  Web 
Engineering applies software engineering approaches to the Web.

Cheers,

Michael


>A graduate student I know is looking for resources on how to analyze
>(nonlinear) information on the WWW. Can anyone recommend any resources
>(books, articles, sites) I could pass on to him that might be helpful?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Susannah


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