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- What is linguistic hypertext? <sum06 1 9>
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- Taxonomy The first step to organizing a body of knowledge is to
- construction convert the vocabulary into a taxonomy or classification
- ============ system for the language. <link56>
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- I describe my standard test for hypertext talents as
- Can you create converting a book index into a clean hierarchy
- hypertext? (completeness, parallelism, sequence, and span) that
- ========== organizes information into categories that will make
- sense to the various users of the system. Why is this
- important? <link04>
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- Minimum keystrokes Overall "good" taxonomies provide users with rapid
- ================== ways to find what they want to know within a minimum
- number of keystrokes.
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- Any file leads to If pieces of this taxonomy have been added to each
- all files of the files, users can eventually reach all related
- ========= files while browsing in any one file. Such network
- thinking is central to integrating systems of knowledge.