The magical place of literary memory (TM): Xanadu

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Title: The magical place of literary memory (TM): Xanadu
Author(s): Barnet, Belinda
Abstract: It was a vision in a dream. A computer filing system which would store and deliver the great body of human literature, in all its historical versions and with all its messy interconnections, acknowledging authorship, ownership, quotation and linkage. Like the web, but much better: no links would ever be broken, no documents would ever be lost, copyright and ownership would be scrupulously preserved. This vision is actually older than the web, and aspects of it are older than personal computing: it belongs to hypertext pioneer Theodore Holm Nelson, who dubbed the project Xanadu in 1967.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Source: Screening the Past, No. 18 (2005)
Publication year: 2005
FOR Code(s): 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media; 2103 Historical Studies; 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies; 200104 Media Studies; 220203 History and Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
Keyword(s): Communication technologies; Content management; Hypermedia; Hypertext; Information management; Interconnectivity; Knowledge preservation; Nelson, Theodor Holm (1937-); Networked information; Project Xanadu
Publisher: La Trobe University
ISSN: 1328-9756
Publisher URL: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr_18/BBfr18a.html
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