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HyperText Design Issues: Intended Uses
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<h1>
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Intended Uses
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</h1>Here are some of the many areas in which hypertext is
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used. Each area has its specific requirements in the way of
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features required.
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<ul>
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<li>General reference data - encyclopaedia, etc.
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</li>
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<li>Completely centralized publishing - online help,
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documentation, tutorial etc
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<li>More or less centralized dissemination of news which has
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a limited life
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<li>Collaborative authoring
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<li>Collaborative design of something other than the
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hypertext itself
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<li>Personal notebook
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</li>
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</ul>The CERN requirement has a mixture of many of these uses,
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except that there is not a requirement for distribution of
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fixed hypertext on hard media such as optical disk. Evidently,
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the system will have to be networked, though databases may
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start life at least as personal notebooks.
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<p>
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For looking up data bases, the user should be able to refer
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to already prepared complex queries by simple UDIs. A moe
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advanced user should also be able to prepare a complex query
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himself, store it (interpreted language!) in his local filing
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space, and use it through a simple UDI.
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[The (paper) document "HyperText and CERN" describes the
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problem to be solved at CERN, and the requirements of a
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system which solves them. That information is not repeated
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here.]
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