Exploring representation problems using hypertext
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TL;DR
This paper discusses several applications that have used NoteCards, a hypertext idea processing system, to tackle representation problems, and suggests some methods for capturing the structure of a political organization as an alternative to a conventional database design.
Abstract
Hypertext is a technology well-suited to exploring different kinds of representational problems. It can be used first as an informal mechanism to describe the attributes of objects and to capture relationships between the objects. Then hypertext structures can be constrained into a more formal representation of a domain, model, or analytic technique. A range of strategies for using hypertext can be employed to describe a problem and converge on an appropriate representation; competing representations can be informally evaluated to compare their relative expressive power.