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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 24, 2011 at 09:10 AM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I can think of at least
>one historical effort to provide a structured document format, facilitating
>knowledge organisation and retrieval, namely Doug Engelbart’s Hyperscope
>http://hyperscope.org/ see also
>http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/hyperscope.html I’m sure there have been
>others.

Answering to myself, there is of course RDF http://www.w3.org/RDF/ the Resource Description Framework to support the semantic web.

In short, whether as PDFs or web pages, our information is stored in ways that our tools cannot comprehend, only reproduce. The semantic web’s ambition is to change this.

In other respects, all tools mentioned for handling PDFs are useful, but they don’t free their user from the intellectual investment to make sense out of them.

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