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Superimposed Information for the Internet (1999) [30 citations — 4 self]

by David Maier ,  Lois Delcambre
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Abstract:

Introduction It has existed for several millennia, in the form of commentaries on religious books, law and literature. We see it today in concordances, citation indexes and genome maps. You probably have created some of it, as a bookmark file in your web browser. The "it" we refer to is superimposed information: data "placed over" existing information sources to help organize, access, connect and reuse information elements in those sources. Digital forms of superimposed information are now common, especially in the milieu of the World-Wide Web. Some of it has an individual focus, such as the aforementioned bookmark files, or link pages on a person's web site. Other forms are collective efforts and meant for wide audiences, for example, web guides such as Yahoo. Examples exist outside of the web, such as repositories for software projects that link together specifications, schemas, databases and program components, and directories of scientific informa

Citations

1839 The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine – Brin, Page - 1998
15 Structured maps: Modeling explicit semantics over a universe of information – Delcambre, Maier, et al. - 1997
1 Models for Superimposed Information,” unpublished manuscript – Delcambre, Maier - 1999
1 Language (XPointer), World Wide Web Consortium Working Draft 03March-1998, http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xptr – Pointer