OpenHyperdocumentSystems

A project of the BootstrapInstitute? (founded by DougEngelbart).

: To enable highly effective dynamic collective work - what we call the collective intelligence of an organization, community, or nation. The technology must facilitate the collaborative process, the capture and synthesis, and the enhanced useability of the organization's emerging distributed, heterogenous knowledge base(s). This will require new universal standards for hypermedia document/information exchange, or Hyperdocument (e.g. based on XML) upon which open-source tools (e.g. using java and including open agent architectures) will operate interoperably.

See http://www.bootstrap.org/alliance-980.htm for a framework document (which makes a nice wishlist of properties for hypermedia systems).

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