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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>
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>
Minimum keystrokes Overall "good" taxonomies provide users with rapid
================== ways to find what they want to know within a minimum
number of keystrokes.
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.