Beschreibung
It is a pleasure and an honor to write a foreword for Jennifer Lennon's book Hypermedia Systems and Applications: World Wide Web and Beyond. I am fortunate to have been able to follow the development of this book from an excellent Ph.D. thesis to what I would consider one of the best and most comprehensive books in the area. It has a good chance to become a must for teachers, researchers, and practitioners. For the sake ofthis foreword let us combine the phenomena hypermedia, the Internet, and the WWW by just calling them the Web. Well, this Web surely has become one of the "super hot topics", from both a scholarly and a commercial point ofview! We have a saying that the Web is like a dog: one year's development of the Web corresponds to seven human years. You will be familiar with Murphy's law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong", and with a plethora of derivatives or specializations thereof like: "If you are in an otherwise empty locker room, the only other person there is bound to have a locker just on top ofyours"; or: "If traffic is moving slowly, you are always going to be in the slowest moving lane", and so on. Well, I have coined a version that applies to the Web: "Whenever you have understood an important new development concerning the Web you can be sure that it is obsolete".
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Introduction.- A Brief Historical Overview.- Internet.- The World-Wide Web and Second Generation Hypermedia Systems.- An Overview of Hypermedia Applications.- Electronic Presentation and Publishing.- Hypermedia: Standards and Models.- Integrated Learning Environments.- Hypermedia and Lecturing.- Hypermedia and Distributed Learning Environments.- Interactive and Annotated Movies.- Hypermedia and the Notion of a Personal Assistant.- Hypermedia and a New Symbolism for Improved Communication.- Hypermedia and a New Multi-Sensory Environment.- Conclusions and Future Work.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabeI. Introduction to Hypermedia Systems and Their Applications.- 1. Introduction.- 1.1 Overview.- 1.2 Definition of Hypermedia.- 1.3 New Qualities in Multimedia Entail New Definitions.- 1.4 Internet: Mess or Messiah?.- 1.5 From Personal Computer to Personal Assistant.- 1.6 Forecasting: An Impossible Necessity.- 1.7 How this Book is Structured.- 2. Visionaries, Pioneers, and Benchmark Applications.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 A Brief Timeline.- 2.3 Vannevar Bush: Memex (1945).- 2.4 Marshall McLuhan: Global Village (1964).- 2.5 Theodor Nelson: Xanadu (1965).- 2.6 van Dam: Hypertext Editing System (HES) (1967).- 2.7 Douglas Engelbart: Augment: NLS (1968).- 2.8 Akscyn: ZOG: Knowledge Management System (KMS) (1975).- 2.9 Alan Kay: Dynabook (1977).- 2.10 Andrew Lippman: Aspen Movie Map (1978).- 2.11 VideoTex (1980s).- 2.12 Ben Shneiderman: HyperTies (1983).- 2.13 Janet Walker: Document Examiner (1985).- 2.14 Norman Meyrowitz: Intermedia: IRIS (1985).- 2.15 Peter Brown: Guide (1986).- 2.16 Frank Halasz: NoteCards: Seven Issues (1987).- 2.17 Bill Atkinson: HyperCard (1987).- 2.18 Hermann Maurer: HM-Card and Hyperwave (1993).- 3. The Internet: A First Glance.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 The Fundamental Interconnections.- 3.3 Client/Server Architectures.- 3.4 Internet Services.- 3.5 Pioneering User-Oriented Support.- 3.6 Group Communication Services on the Internet (Text Based).- 3.7 Summary.- 4. Hypermedia Systems: Meeting the Challenges of the Web.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The Weaving of the Web.- 4.3 First-Generation Problems.- 4.4 Second-Generation Answers.- 4.5 Second-Generation Extensions.- 4.6 Aspects of Web Security.- 4.7 Afterword.- 5. Hypermedia Systems: Their Application to Life, Work, and Learning.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Converging Technology.- 5.3 Computer Animation and Simulation.- 5.4 The Impact of Hypermedia on the Way We Live.- 5.5 The Impact of Hypermedia on the Way We Work.- 5.6 The Impact of Hypermedia on Lifelong Learning.- II. Web Technologies.- 6. The World Wide Web.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Uniform Resource Locators (URL).- 6.3 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).- 6.4 HyperText Markup Language (HTML).- 6.5 Common Gateway Interfaces (CGI).- 6.6 Providing Interaction With Forms.- 6.7 Internet and Intranet Browsers.- 6.8 Search Engines.- 6.9 Web Gatherers (Crawlers, Spiders, Robots, and Bots).- 6.10 The World Wide Web of the 90s: A Snapshot.- 6.11 Afterword.- 7. Hyperwave - An Advanced Hypermedia Document Management System Ill.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The Hyperwave Server.- 7.3 Hyperwave Clients and Their Functionality.- 7.4 Existing Applications.- 8. Hypermedia: Standards and Models.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Networks, Access, and Services.- 8.3 Markup Languages.- 8.4 Digital Compression.- 8.5 Hypermedia Models.- III. Advanced Applications and Developments.- 9. Electronic Presentation, Publishing, and Digital Libraries.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 Multimedia Presentations.- 9.3 Electronic Publishing.- 9.4 Electronic Publishing on the Web.- 9.5 Electronic Publishing Houses.- 9.6 Repercussions in the World of Advertising.- 9.7 Electronic Newspapers.- 9.8 Digital Libraries on the World Wide Web.- 9.9 Electronic Support for Paper-Based Libraries.- 9.10 Electronic Journals.- 9.11 Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues.- 9.12 Version Control.- 9.13 Afterword.- 10. Integrated Learning Environments.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Professional Learning.- 10.3 Formal Learning.- 10.4 Research.- 10.5 Afterword.- 11. From Traditional Lectures to CAI.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 Lecturing Facilities Past to Present.- 11.3 Lecturing Technologies of Tomorrow.- 11.4 Lecturing "On the Fly".- 11.5 Afterword.- 12. Hypermedia and Distributed Learning Environments.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 Prom Teacher Centred to Student Centred Learning.- 12.3 Why So Much "Distance Education" in Urban Areas?.- 12.4 The Electronic Classroom.- 12.5 Computer Mediated Communication (CMC).- 12.6 Emerging Wide-Area Networked Learning Environments.- 12.7 An Illustrative Survey
