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We were promised Xanadu
1. Jakob Voss We were promised Xanadu The original hypertext system and how we can benefit from its concepts presented at Wikimania 2010 Gdańsk Sunday, July 11 th 2010
2. Jimbo Wales Wikipedia 2001 Ward Cunningham WardsWiki 1995 Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web 1989 Ted Nelson Xanadu 1960 digital hypertext systems Easy editing Versioning Backlinks Centralized Open Content Limited Scope (Encyclopaedia) Identifiers (URI & URL) Distributed Very limited type of Hypertext Deep digital documents Mostly Vaporware Important concepts
3. “ HTML is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT – ever- breaking links , links going outward only , quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.” Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm, Expressed as One-Liners (1999) WWW is broken
13. time merge change merge change change change change change change version 1 version 2 version 3 version 4 text A text F text C text D text B text E text G version 5
14. branch change change parallel text Types of changes change parallel branches sequent versions links parallel text transcluded transcluded text C text D text E text A text B
15. Deep links in Xanadu An identifier for any portion/span of text (of whatever version) can be constructed.