Metatext
A term coined within the Tunes Interfaces subproject for the use of higher-order objects to deal with and relate hypertext systems.Generally this encompasses the same kinds of ideas as Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web project, but the Tunes philosophy makes for a qualitatively different approach. Mainly, by not relying on the least common denominator of development tools, the typewriter-style text editing context, the issues with identity and ontology are more relevant to the actual domains than their representations in XML-based formats. Furthermore, a finer grain of referencing is possible due to the manner in which objects should be (de/re-)composable within Tunes semantics.
(Feel free to add comments to refine this idea or categorize approaches.)
- Cyberbrowsing: Information Customization on the Web.
- Waiting for Browsers that Parse, by Jorn Barger.
- LAPIS, probably the first concretization of a browser that parse (in the sense that programmable parsing capability, beyond *XML recognition and rendering, are available to browser end-users).
- Robust Hyperlinks are also relevant.
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