“Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Michael Satlow and a team of Israel-based scholars plan to develop advanced AI and natural language processing techniques — adapted for historical Hebrew and Aramaic sources — to analyze more than 130,000 texts spanning 18 centuries.”
#brownuniversity #hypertext #corpus
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-02-04/jewish-texts-ai-grant-satlow
@cavyherd @arclight @mhoye @jimfl
Yes! I use date-page as the index for hand written journal pages.
I keep three series of spiral bound paper journals with blue (work), red (personal), black (nightstand) colors, and tags I write in [square bracelets].
This lets me use hand written ‘slow links’ to any written journal page: [red, 1Mar23, p3]. It’s very handy for linking paper journal pages and slow linking to a paper page from email, a message, a spreadsheet, etc.
@cavyherd @arclight @mhoye @jimfl
I started using slow links based on the ‘blue number’ links Doug Engelbart invented and I copied for Traction TeamPage.
Every TeamPage entry has a Id of the form Blog2804 for an entry created in a space named ‘Blog’ of a TeamPage server.
I can turn a TractionId into a permalink by writing https://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog2804
I can slow link from my hand written journals to TeamPage using just the TractionId, and open a TeamPage link by saying it!
@Roundtrip @arclight @mhoye @jimfl
I date •everything•. I've also finally figured out a useful indexing system for my bullet-journals. Instead of page numbers (because repeats when the file gets too big & have to start a new one) the "page reference" is just the date-time.
@cavyherd @arclight @mhoye @jimfl
Yes! I use date-page as the index for hand written journal pages.
I keep three series of spiral bound paper journals with blue (work), red (personal), black (nightstand) colors, and tags I write in [square bracelets].
This lets me use hand written ‘slow links’ to any written journal page: [red, 1Mar23, p3]. It’s very handy for linking paper journal pages and slow linking to a paper page from email, a message, a spreadsheet, etc.
@mjd “Was the alphabetic index invented before the scroll was superseded by the codex?” — Not really. Plinius' “Natural History“ has an index and he tells in his preface about another work with an index, but that seem to be the only cases. The problem is that with a scroll, you cannot actually use the index, because “leafing” through the pages (or better, “scrolling”?) would be too much effort.
It is also said that the introduction of Christianity was the reason why in later times, codices were much more popular than scrolls. The problem was the Bible: To work as a theologian, you have jump backward and forward between gospel and prophet books, between different gospels, and so on — much too much work if you have scrolls. The Bible was the first hypertext!
For more about indices, see “Index, A History of the” by David Duncan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index,_A_History_of_the).
@mrdk @mjd
Thanks! A great reference on the history and evolution of indices, and its relation to sequential printing technology.
The classical structure and organization of the Talmud might be another early example of a “spatial hypertext”—organized by alternative principles of adjacency and context—to reduce page flipping by the scholar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmudical_hermeneutics?wprov=sfti1#
#hypertext #history #talmud
Spatial hypertext: https://cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed/papers/37.html
@mrdk Old terminology dies slowly, doesn't it?
Yesterday I was wondering: codices have the index at the back. For a scroll, it seems to me that wouldn't work, you would need to put it at the front where the table of contents is. Was the alphabetic index invented before the scroll was superseded by the codex? And if so, did they put it at the front?
Then again, scrolls are much shorter, so maybe you don[t need a per-scroll index. Instead, I suppose you would have one index scroll, separate from the others, that would tell you which scroll of a multi-volume work had what you were looking for.
@mjd “Was the alphabetic index invented before the scroll was superseded by the codex?” — Not really. Plinius' “Natural History“ has an index and he tells in his preface about another work with an index, but that seem to be the only cases. The problem is that with a scroll, you cannot actually use the index, because “leafing” through the pages (or better, “scrolling”?) would be too much effort.
It is also said that the introduction of Christianity was the reason why in later times, codices were much more popular than scrolls. The problem was the Bible: To work as a theologian, you have jump backward and forward between gospel and prophet books, between different gospels, and so on — much too much work if you have scrolls. The Bible was the first hypertext!
For more about indices, see “Index, A History of the” by David Duncan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index,_A_History_of_the).
Werkzeug >> Tool
Light pen, colorized photo
IBM 2250 vector CRT display
Hypertext Editing System (1969)
Brown University
Providence RI USA
Inspired by the prodigious self-titled #decker zine queen @milliesquilly:
https://zine.milliesquilly.com/
@noracodes made a #zine in Decker:
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
which got shared by @alcinnz and that’s where I discovered Decker, a platform that builds on the old-school interactive feel of #Hypercard and rocks that Classic MacOS look:
https://beyondloom.com/decker/
There's even a #Twine integration! Time for some non-linear, interactive #storytelling, #HyperText style.
Inspired by the prodigious self-titled #decker zine queen @milliesquilly:
https://zine.milliesquilly.com/
@noracodes made a #zine in Decker:
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
which got shared by @alcinnz and that’s where I discovered Decker, a platform that builds on the old-school interactive feel of #Hypercard and rocks that Classic MacOS look:
https://beyondloom.com/decker/
There's even a #Twine integration! Time for some non-linear, interactive #storytelling, #HyperText style.
I made a zine in Decker, about why taking pictures of "ugly" things like power lines and train tracks feels meaningful to me. Also, I figured how to embed a Decker deck in a web page without an iframe!
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
I made a zine in Decker, about why taking pictures of "ugly" things like power lines and train tracks feels meaningful to me. Also, I figured how to embed a Decker deck in a web page without an iframe!
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:
In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:
A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.
A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.
Matthias Müller-Prove's 2002 MSc thesis on the history of hypertext and GUIs is an introduction to these fields and their major systems, including NoteCards.
At ACM #Hypertext @ht: Mark Anderson talking about spatial hypertext and its origins, also referring to Frank Halasz's #NoteCards. See his full paper “W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext?” at http://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746683
@hist_HT @interlisp @amoroso
@barking 🧵As We May Not Think
Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!
I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.
https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html
The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.
https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf
Let’s give Leaflet.pub a try!
Ted Nelson’s script for his proposed #PaleFire #Hypertext SJCC demo. Hypertext Editing System, 1969
