Networked Memex Based on Personal Digital Library

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Author(s): S. Guan (Brunel University, UK)and X. Zhang (La Trobe University, Australia)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 8
Source title: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal)and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch136

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality

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Memex (Bush, 1945) became an influential ideal and was hailed as the inspiration for hypertext and other new ways for information retrieval and organization. To deal with the explosion of scientific information, Bush’s proposal for Memex focused on the problems of “locating relevant information in the published record and recording how that information was intellectually connected” (Bush, 1945). The expansion of information will be more and more serious as the Internet grows and most future computers are network-based. Thus, researchers have to consider the problems of “locating relevant published records in the published machines and recording how those records are intellectually connected.”

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