The Liquid Information is a research project at UCLiC in London in cooperation with Doug Engelbart in California. They are aiming to make text more interactive - turning words into hyperwords. Why? Most electronic communication has focused on the production of information, not the digestion of information. In order to make informed decisions in our work, it's not enough to rely on automated systems - we need to get the right information into our heads. They believe in giving the professional user a more flexible work environment in which he or she can more flexibly navigate through information, change the way it's portrayed and relate it to other information. Extending the user in this way will help the user digest important and useful information. The web is a great step forward in information access and you can think of this project as an effort to turn web 'browsers' into web 'readers'. This is not about 'links' it's about interactive text - text you can issue commands on, such as 'highlight this word in red' or 'look up the dictionary definition of this word'. Please browse through their menu where you will find their production blog, a quick demo, and so on. This has been addded to the tools section of the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
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