NoteCards

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Hypertext-based personal knowledge base system

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::summary Hypertext-based personal knowledge base system ::

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NoteCards was a hypertext-based personal knowledge base system developed at Xerox PARC by Randall Trigg, Frank Halasz and Thomas Moran in 1984. NoteCards was developed after Trigg's pioneering 1983 Ph.D. thesis on hypertext while at the University of Maryland College Park.

NoteCards was built to model four basic kinds of objects: notecards, links, browser card, and a filebox.{{Cite journal | last = Halasz | first = Frank G. | title = Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems | journal = ACM Journal of Computer Documentation | volume = 25 | year = 2001 | pages = 71–87 | doi = 10.1145/507317.507321 | issue = 3 | s2cid = 53245008

| publisher = ACM Press | isbn = 0-89791-213-6 | pages = 45–52 | last = Halasz | first = Frank G. |author2=Thomas P. Moran |author3=Randall H. Trigg | title = Notecards in a nutshell | book-title = Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI conference on Human factors in computing systems and graphics interface | location = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | date = 1987 | doi = 10.1145/29933.30859

NoteCards was implemented in LISP on D-machine workstations from Xerox which used large, high-resolution displays. The NoteCards interface is event-driven. One interesting feature of NoteCards is that authors may use LISP commands to customize or create entirely new node types. The powerful programming language allows almost complete customization of the entire NoteCards work environment.

Availability

NoteCards was available commercially from the Common Lisp software vendor Venue, compiled for Solaris 2.5 and 7 (untested on later versions) and Linux x86 with the X Window System.

References

References

  1. Conklin, Jeff. (September 1987). "Hypertext: an introduction and survey". [[IEEE Computer]].
  2. "Venue (Common Lisp software vendor)".
  3. "Compatibility information from vendor website pricing page".

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