The Electronic Hypermedia Encyclopaedia: Transcending the constraints of the "authoritative work"?


Patrick J. Coppock
The University of Trondheim¨
College of Arts and Science
Department of Applied Lingustics
N-7055 Dragvoll
Norway

e-mail: patcop@alfa.avh.unit.no or coppack@bo.nettuno.it

  1. 1. Preamble
  2. 2. Constituting the authoritiveness of the encyclopædia as reference work
    1. 2.1. Genres of knowledge representation and their "authoritativeness"
    2. 2.2. The notions of completeness and openness
    3. 2.3. Coping with changing norms and meanings in revision: the authority of up-to-dateness and consistency
  3. 3. Encyclopaedias into the realm of hypermedia
  4. 4. The problem of selective information retrieval in complex open hypermedia systems
  5. 5. Some potentials and limitations of abductive reasoning systems as computational disambiguation devices.
  6. 7. Studying the development and disambiguation of meaning in interpretative communities in distributed text-based multi-user dialogues
  7. 8.Continuing the trajectory
  8. 9. References:
  9. Appendix I: Results of a truncated [10 items] search in the Online Encyclopædia Britannica
  10. Appendix II: Results of a truncated [10 items] search in the Online Encyclopædia Britannica
  11. Appendix III: Logg from the beginning of an interaction at Diversity University MOO


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