Category: AuthoringSystem
Organization: Maine University, Fort Kent, ME, USA
Journal: Library Software Review
Abstract: Hyperties, distributed by Cognetics Corporation, is
        a hypertext software package which allows the user
        to create information management systems comprising
        both text and graphics. Associated information in
        separate articles and graphics can be linked,
        allowing readers of the database to browse through
        material in a sequence which is meaningful to them,
        regardless of information format. The links are
        highlighted terms which indicate that related
        information on a topic is available. Users simply
        select a highlighted link to move between related
        documents. Hyperties, like all hypertext authoring
        programs, lets users create non-linear information
        networks. In addition to the practical application
        of arranging information in a personalized way for
        every user, this network provides a theoretical
        context for learning. People learn by fitting new
        information into their network of knowledge,
        relating new concepts to old ones. Hypertext links
        focus attention on the relationship between ideas
        rather than on isolated facts, thereby recreating
        part of a knowledge network. Thus hypertext
        documents can facilitate remembering and aid in
        concept development
Number: 1
Bibtype: Article
Author: S. M. Johnson
        K. Parker
Pages: 75-8
Month: jan
Title: Hypertext authoring system
Year: 1991
Volume: 10
Keyword: authoring languages, hypermedia, IBM computers,
        microcomputer applications, software packages,
        Cognetics Corporation, hypertext software package,
        information management systems, browse, links,
        highlighted terms, Hyperties, hypertext authoring
        programs, non-linear information networks, learning,
        knowledge network, hypertext documents, remembering,
        concept development, 256 Kbytes Numerical data:
        memory size 2.62E+05 Byte