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- Hypertext: Creation for others <sum10 1 8>
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- Creating good hypertext is hard work that requires skills in:
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- Skills Decomposition -- breaking information into component parts
- ====== Analyzing -- understanding the relationships between the parts
- Abstracting -- finding the ideas in each of the parts
- Semantics -- understanding meaning independent of expression
- Generalizing -- identifying commonalities
- Synthesizing -- assembling component information in new ways
- Patterning -- creating intuitively obvious knowledge formats
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- Of course, the process of building hypertext systems does produce
- subject mastery (perhaps a personal goal). The primary reason for
- creating hypertext, however, is to put desired knowledge at the
- fingertips of others <link04>, such as:
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- (1) Mentor systems -- guiding new users to desired information
- (2) Coach systems -- providing extra insights whenever needed
- (3) Assistant systems -- user automatically makes additional links
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- Key Databases require no talent to build and epic talent to use <link26>.
- === Hypertext require epic talent to build and no talent to use <link60>.