Missing Hypertext Features

Conklin, J. (1987). Hypertext: An introduction and Survey, IEEE Computer, 20(9), pp. 17-41.

In the July 88 ACM Special Issue - Proceedings of Hypertext87 Conference, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November, 87, the following were of particular note:

  • Van Dam, A. (1988). "Hypertext '87 Keynote Address." Communications of the ACM, 31 (7), pp. 887-895.

  • Akscyn, R.M., McCracken, D.L., and Yoder, E.A. (1988). "KMS: A Distributed Hypermedia System for Managing Knowledge in Organizations," Communications of the ACM, 31 (7), pp. 820-835.

  • Halasz, Frank G. (1988). "Reflections on NoteCards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems." Communications of the ACM, 31 (7), pp.836-851.

Norm Meyrowitz, from Brown University, later wrote wonderful articles on the subject of missing features:

  • Meyrowitz, N. "The Missing Link: Why We're Doing Hypertext Wrong" In Barrett (Ed.) The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Social Construction of Information. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Meyrowitz, N. (1991). Hypertext - Does it Reduce Cholesterol, Too? In Nyce & Kahn (Eds.). In Nyce and Kahn (Eds.) From Memex to Hypertext: Vanevar Bush and the Mind's Machine. (pp. 287-318). Academic Press.

More recently, Brown University has continued it's tradition in Hypertext scholarship, with the Memex and Beyond web site based on the Bush Symposium they co-sponsored with MIT.

The particularly valuable part of the site that provides a rich set of information on the potential of hypertext is the archive, maintained by Rosemary Simpson, that contains a large number of papers through ACM Hypertext 96.

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