[WEB4LIB] Technical challenges for next generation web info systems

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Hi James/

>>> James Mason <jmason at pa.dec.com> 06/02 1:41 PM >>>
>I'd like to identify as many hard technical/ scientific problems and challenges we >face  in building new generations of web information technologies in terms of
>navigation, visualization,  document similarity, and other issues.

   I appreciate your interest in these areas.

>Can you suggest avenues to collect such
>problems/challenges or help build a list
>itself?

    In my working essay _Morning  Becomes Electric: Post-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and Navigation_
at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Morning.htm ]

   I speculate on the probable and possible scenarios for
information access, organization, and navigation.
 
   I am revising the essay at 

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Morning3.htm

  Note in particular the Foundations section.

     Regards,

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
and
Associate Professor
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu


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