Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
and
S. Amrik Singh
Head, Department of Computer Science
MBSCET, Jammu (Tawi).
Email: amriksingh07@gmail.com 1
There is huge volume of information available on
the Internet
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Internet usage statistics (June 30.2010)
information?
To innovatively design and develop services that offer more value and convenience
to information users.
problem solving.
To develop state of the art knowledge management tools for just in time retrieval of
desired information.
To present information in a way that may make the process of information use
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This requires categorization and organization of
worthwhile hypermedia according to some order
or schema.
Hypermedia offers an exciting new method of linking and searching information.
dissemination of information.
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Hypermedia and Different subject areas
In certain subject areas hypermedia documents can offer a way to create information
chains for better understanding of past developments for facilitating future course of
In the subject area of law, latest case decisions can be hyperlinked with previous
In the subject field of history, latest development and contemporary situations can be
hyperlinked with the past happenings that may themselves be organized in the
chronological order.
In chemistry, documents reporting new compounds can be hyperlinked with the related
Patent documents in a specific area may be linked to trace the course of inventions and
Efforts are also desired for standardization of such tools and practices
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Next Generation of Hypermedia organization
technologies
The next generation of hypermedia organization technologies and
tools may
Go for application of artificial intelligence methods involving
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Information professionals approach
Informational professionals have tried organization of web documents using
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Some examples where classification schemes are
used for organizing hypermedia documents are:
BUBL LINK uses Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).
OCLC’s Net First database has been using an adapted version of DDC.
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Use of Controlled Vocabularies for Hypermedia
organization
Controlled vocabularies such as standard subject heading lists
Thesaurus (AAT).
Efforts are also being focused on metadata or descriptive
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Users’ participation in Hypermedia Organization
Collaborative tagging has emerged as another approach
for organization and retrieval of hypermedia information
resources.
Users themselves assign keywords to information
resources and these system tags can also be looked at and
searched by other users.
However, keywords assigned to information are sources
are not from controlled vocabulary of any information
retrieval system and depends on users, approach and
perspective of looking at the content.
Some of the tagging tools are citeulike, Del.icio.us, Flicker,
Connote, Bibsonomy.
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Need for Synergy of Efforts of Information
Technologists and Information Professionals.
Efforts are being made by both computer professionals and information professionals to
organize hypermedia with the help of their own expertise and perspectives.
There is considerable scope for experts from both the fields to work together and co-
techniques and work domains of each other and collectively work together to develop
most appropriate and user friendly methods of hypermedia organization.
Collaborative efforts and synergy in the work of information technologists and LIS
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