Organizing information on the next generation web - Design and implementation of a new bookmark structure

The next-generation Web will increase the need for a highly organized and ever evolving method to store references to Web objects. These requirements could be realized by the development of a new bookmark structure. This paper endeavors to identify the key requirements of such a bookmark, specifically in relation to Web documents, and sets out a suggested design through which these needs may be accomplished. A prototype developed offers such features as the sharing of bookmarks between users and groups of users. Bookmarks for Web documents in this prototype allow more specific information to be stored such as: URL, the document type, the document title, keywords, a summary, user annotations, date added, date last visited and date last modified. Individuals may access the service from anywhere on the Internet, as long as they have a Java-enabled Web browser

Personalized Information Structures II: Hyperstructure Hotlists

This paper describes ongoing research into the use of a domain-retargetable reverse engineering environment to aid the structural understanding of large information spaces. In particular, it presents follow-on work on the use of the environment in the documentation and hypertext domain. This programmable environment has been integrated with a popular World Wide Web browser to support hyperstructure hotlists: an approach to managing link complexity, organizing conceptual themes, and aiding Internet navigation through the use of multiple virtual webs. Keywords: hyperstructure, reverse engineering, World Wide Web. 1 Introduction The explosive growth of information sources on the Internet, particularly those accessible via the World Wide Web #WWW#, has re-awakened interest in a classic hypertext problem: Howtoavoid the #lost in hyperspace " syndrome due to disorientation caused by a tangle of referential links in a hypertext web. However, the WWW presents several unique cognitive proble..