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08/21/2001 Archived Entry: "21-August-2001 -- Technical and Human Considerations In Creating Precision Hyperlinks"

Technical and Human Considerations In Creating Precision Hyperlinks (Hastings Research, 2000) -- "A central feature of the Open Hyperdocument System and its DKRs (Dynamic Knowledge Repositories) is granular addressability - the ability to point to a particular spot in a document or other object. Specifying the view is another feature that might be specified within a link. And "human- and machine-readable" is a needed feature if links are to be transmitted accurately. In that light, I wandered over most of the standard ASCII character set (staying within the 32-127 bit range), wondering what a "precision hyperlink" might look like." (Comments: This might sound dry and boring, but it is actually quite useful and interesting. Check it out!)

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