Creating Links into the Future

We are approaching an era where research materials will be stored more and more as digital resources on the World Wide Web. This of course will enable easier access to online publications. As the number of electronic publications expands, it will, however, become a challenge for individuals to find...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Tanvir, Afzal, Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan, Maurer, Hermann
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Language:English
Published: Journal of Universal Computer Science 2007
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author Muhammad Tanvir, Afzal
Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan
Maurer, Hermann
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Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan
Maurer, Hermann
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description We are approaching an era where research materials will be stored more and more as digital resources on the World Wide Web. This of course will enable easier access to online publications. As the number of electronic publications expands, it will, however, become a challenge for individuals to find related or relevant papers. Related papers could be papers written by the same team of authors or by one of the authors, or even papers that deal with the same topic but were written by other authors. This, of course, raises the issue of linking to papers forward in time, or as we call it “links into the future”. To be concrete, while reading a paper written in the year 1980, it would be nice to know if the same author has written another related paper in 1990’s or if the same author has written a paper earlier, all this without making an explicit search. Based on the ascertained interest of a person reading a particular paper from a digital repository, an auto-suggestion facility could be useful to indicate papers in the same area, category and subject that might potentially be of interest to the reader. One is typically interested in finding related papers by the same author or by one of the authors of a paper. This feature can be implemented in two ways. The first is by creating links from this paper to all the relevant papers and updating it periodically for new papers appearing on the World Wide Web. Another way is by going through the references of all papers appearing on the WWW. Based on the references, one can create mutual links to the papers that are referred to.
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spelling unimas-5302015-03-23T08:33:55Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/530/ Creating Links into the Future Muhammad Tanvir, Afzal Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan Maurer, Hermann L Education (General) LB Theory and practice of education T Technology (General) We are approaching an era where research materials will be stored more and more as digital resources on the World Wide Web. This of course will enable easier access to online publications. As the number of electronic publications expands, it will, however, become a challenge for individuals to find related or relevant papers. Related papers could be papers written by the same team of authors or by one of the authors, or even papers that deal with the same topic but were written by other authors. This, of course, raises the issue of linking to papers forward in time, or as we call it “links into the future”. To be concrete, while reading a paper written in the year 1980, it would be nice to know if the same author has written another related paper in 1990’s or if the same author has written a paper earlier, all this without making an explicit search. Based on the ascertained interest of a person reading a particular paper from a digital repository, an auto-suggestion facility could be useful to indicate papers in the same area, category and subject that might potentially be of interest to the reader. One is typically interested in finding related papers by the same author or by one of the authors of a paper. This feature can be implemented in two ways. The first is by creating links from this paper to all the relevant papers and updating it periodically for new papers appearing on the World Wide Web. Another way is by going through the references of all papers appearing on the WWW. Based on the references, one can create mutual links to the papers that are referred to. Journal of Universal Computer Science 2007 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/530/1/Creating_Links_into_the_Future.pdf Muhammad Tanvir, Afzal and Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan and Maurer, Hermann (2007) Creating Links into the Future. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 13 (9). ISSN 1234-1245 http://ir.unimas.my/530/1/Creating_Links_into_the_Future.pdf
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Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan
Maurer, Hermann
Creating Links into the Future
title Creating Links into the Future
title_full Creating Links into the Future
title_fullStr Creating Links into the Future
title_full_unstemmed Creating Links into the Future
title_short Creating Links into the Future
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topic L Education (General)
LB Theory and practice of education
T Technology (General)
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/530/1/Creating_Links_into_the_Future.pdf