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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Richard Morris wrote:
>  In particular the Annotea
> > project <http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/> part of w3c's semantic web
> > stuff <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/> looks interesting. 
> Now annotation is kind of cool for our purposes. We might want to
> annotate content in various ways.
> Here content could be:
>     the information about a plant
>     an article (say someones opion piece on self-willed land)
>     other media (photos, sound, movies)
> And the annotation could be
>     a comment about the content
>     a rating for how good the content is
>     author info (?)
>
> A standard class for annotation could be a good idea?
>
> Currently the pfaf site could be seen to follow a content-annotation 
> scheme. In that none of the content can be changed, but users
> are able to add anotation (comments) to most of the content
> (basically static web pages and plant database pages).

Annotation/comments on each record(*) displayed in database search results
could get interesting and bear fruit for building a network of relationships 
between objects (object = db record?).
Allowing wikilike editing/formatting of comments would allow for embedded 
"links" to other info (could clicking on one of these
wiki-like "links' initiate/spawn another db search using that link as keyword 
to produce a string of results analygous to
a "picture" of a network of relationships to the original record(*). Curious 
whether this text-based info display could be ported to some
fancy graphical mapping rendering.

> Of course some content will be more Wiki like.

I have been looking through my books on html, shtml, ssi, object and id tags and other stuff. Maybe xhtml and xml later as I beging to 
understand what that is all about.

Rich:

I use Hyoermail and mhonarc to create mini mail2html archives - very handy. I 
wonder if there is any way to convert these from
html to xhtml or xml and would there be any advantage as far as HG access these archives as external "datasets". Mailman archives are 
basically Unox mail files and can be concerted to Hyoermail and mhonarc archives - same with Unix mail folders (Pine), Netscape
and Mozilla (Thunderbird also) email folders can also be concerted this way. 
Makes for getting one's valuable email collections
of topical information in a Web accessable format easy - indexable by Google 
and sortable 4 ways.

> > Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
> >  >  > <http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr03/mattison.shtml>
> >  >  > Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM 
> > and Collaborative Content Tool
> >  > by David Mattison ? Access Services Archivist ? British Columbia 
> > Archives, Cananda
> > _____

> Most relavant quote for us:
>
>  >>>>>>>>
> DM: What are your thoughts about wikis as hypertext-based information 
> retrieval tools?
>
> BL: Wiki is an absurdly simple database tool, very informal. Probably 
> optimal for the kind of ill-defined or shifting needs that an individual 
> has for organizing personal notes or for Web-published meanderings. Less 
> suited to formal database environments where entry format must be 
> specified and access more controlled. That said, wiki implementations 
> have been constructed as front ends for MySQL engines, corporate team 
> tools, and support sites. Wiki has scaled far better than expected.
>  >>>>>>>>

Impressive! I would like to see examples of this.

By all means have a look at TikiWiki which in addition to being a wiki with 
robust features is also a CMS.
Could TikiWiki be hacked to become a/or part of a front end for HG; maybe the 
CMS could be utilized for HG purposes in this fashion.

LL
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