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| Item + comment | Link issues |
| Panadol: package or picture? Can't get product --> so me products are information products | What are we linking to? Needs clear purpose to make sense of linking to it |
| Magazine: why image not text? Images are not efficient. Magazine looks "natural" but actually real like Panadol package! Treatment of keywords like "hyperlinks" | Use text for links. Magazine format seems natural. People know highlight and links, scan documents. Pic is linked to text loosely, like magazine |
| "Darkness". Lost artefact-ness. But note old-fashioned look; through punctuation but can be 100% implemented. Chunking: still works? No pics, too wide, looks boring, not web media | Text obscures distinction between information and object: which one are we linking to? Text will be easy to link to. |
| Personal letter. Utterly transformed by handwriting. Not for publication. | Would need clear context for linking. How to link to it other than as artefact? |
| Typed letter. Cannot be published. | Would make useful part of private, local document network. Especially linking the obscured parts! |
| Sounds. Go with dictionary, but which ones? One sound is not in dictionary! | How to link sounds? How to link from sounds? Problems with directionality and ownership of links. |
| Kamilaroi dictionary. Rational hypertext. "Centripetal hypertext". | More of the underlying document is links and format than content. Links use prior literacies. |
| Newspaper. Ephemeral content. Like dictionary, link-rich and "centripetal". | It's their links that count. We have to identify stable parts to link to. |
| Gould page. Out of context? Note he refers to readers' act of reading. | We could link to this but not complete without knowing its source. |
| Dead Man CD. Copyright issues abound. | If we link to this what expectations do we have to set up? What if the CD publisher displays advertisements? Song list would make good link text. |
| TinTin dictionary. Dictionaries are hypertexts. | Could link to Panadol but the actual word "headache" does not appear on the package. |
| Tax reform page. | Linked material directly embedded. Label is like link text, here, added for credibility. The link is the point, the content. |
| Shorthand dictionary. You can link to it, but difficult except in terms of the glosses. | Chunked text like this is good link target. Non-alphabetic text must be recognised, not matched. |
| A Dictionary of Language. Note that the 2 pages are adjacent in the book, but if on-screen and linked there is no sense of physical proximity. In the book there is no explicit link. | Cannot presume the information that spatial adjacency gives. More link support (annotation, rationality, transparency) required. |