These last few days I have been reminded in many ways of my own dissertation research - where I tried to define the hypermedia journal. Treloar picked up on the idea of the h-journal and discussed it in terms of being a product and a process innovation of scholarly journals. This same paper by Treloar, Applying Hypertext and Hypermedia to Scholarly Journals Enables Both Product and Process Innovation is also available from the Brown Memex site which essentially is a hypermedia bibliography (mostly ACM Hypertext conference articles are here in full-text).
What is the hypermedia journal? I found this webpage reporting my study at a conference; it begins to define a hjournal, http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/allerton/95/sundaram.html. Another paper of mine explains: "A distinction can be made between the electronic journal and a hypertext or hypermedia journal (throughout the rest of this paper the terms e-journal and h-journal will be used) that categorizes them as belonging to two different stages in the evolution of electronic documents [1 ]. While the e-journal contains unstructured text and mimics the print model of journal publication, the h-journal builds upon both. It contains structured text, hypertext, and incorporates notions of user centrality to document creation acknowledging thereby that certain kinds of electronic documents can also function as information systems." Source: Tango on the Web: The Evolution of the H-journal.
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