Transclusions in an HTML-Based Environment

Kolbitsch, Josef; Maurer, Hermann

doi:10.2498/cit.2006.02.07

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“…We have shown that there are some data structures, indeed relatively simple ones, which cannot be formally modelled using ZigZag, even with the addition of its cloning conventions. Transclusion is a particularly interesting mechanism and yet it is an aspect of hypermedia that has often been neglected (although this is gradually changing with growing interest in implementing it on the web [9], and in resources such as Wikipedia [4]). The analysis described in this paper has revealed that there are important aspects to transclusion that have previously been overlooked.…”

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Hyperorders and transclusion

2010

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ZigZag is a unique hyperstructural paradigm designed by the hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson. It has piqued a lot of interest in the hypertext community in recent years because of its aim of revolutionizing electronic access to information and knowledge bases. In ZigZag information is stored in cells that are arranged into lists organized along unlimited numbers of intersecting sets of associations called dimensions. To this infrastructure a mechanism of transclusion is added, allowing the data stored in cells to span, and hence be utilized, in different contexts. Proponents of ZigZag claim that it is a flexible and universal structure for information representation, and yet the system has not been widely adopted and has been implemented even more rarely. In this paper we address the question of whether there are intrinsic theoretical reasons as to why this is the case.While the basic features and specifications of ZigZag are well known, we delve in to the less understood area of its theoretical underpinnings to tackle this question. By modeling ZigZag within the framework of set theory we reveal a new class of hyperstructure that contains no referencable link objects whatsoever, instead grouping non-referencable binary associations into disjunct but parallel sets of common semantics (dimensions). We go on to further specialize these "dimensional models" into sets of finite partial functions, which are closed over a single domain, isolating the new class of hyperstructures we are calling hyperorders. This analysis not only sheds light on the benefits and limitations of the ZigZag hypermedia system, but also provides a framework to describe and understand a wider family of possible hyperstructure models of which it is an early example. Characteristics of Zigzag's transclusion mechanisms are also investigated, highlighting a previously unrecognized distinction, and potential irrevocable conflict, between two distinct uses of content reuse: instance and identity transclusion.

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Hyperorders and transclusion

2010

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“…As shown by [3] basic Web technologies such as plain HTML, JavaScript, CGI scripts and a specialized HTTP proxy application allow realizing transclusions on the Web.…”

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Harnessing semantic web technologies for solving the dilemma of content providers

Wagner

Scheir²,

Stocker

et al. 2010

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems

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The current business model of online newspapers is to create content and publish it on the Web. Content in turn attracts users to the online presence of a newspaper. This attention of users is monetized by presenting advertisements to them. The revenue of online content providers is mainly generated by advertisement and strongly depends on the number of users consuming their content.Therefore -in general -content providers aim to attract as many users as possible with their content. However, to a large extent content providers make their content only available on one individual site in an unstructured form and consequently limit the accessibility and reusability of their content. Several reasons for this exist, among them are the way news have been published in the past, intellectual property rights and the way advertisements are currently sold.In this paper we inspect the current situation of online newspapers and propose solutions for the current dilemma of content providers. We illustrate how Semantic Web technologies can help content providers to open their content, i.e. making their content reusable and integrable for third parties, without loss in revenue.

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“…In [4] authors investigated how to adapt the idea of transclusions to the World Wide Web. They presented a prototype composed of some server-side modules resolving transclusions, and a client-side interface running on Firefox.…”

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From XML inclusions to XML transclusions

Iorio

Lumley

2009

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

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Modularized documents, composed of fragments from multiple sources, provide users high maintainability and reuse. In the world of XML, powerful and widely-supported solutions exist to create such documents. Surprisingly enough, a lot of interesting features -especially those envisioned by the pioneers of the hypermedia community -are still missing for XML inclusions. The goal of this paper is to investigate these issues and identify possible improvements in this area. Our main inspiration is the Xanadu project and the concept of transclusions. This paper proposes an enhanced model to describe and interact with XML inclusions. We identify multiple classes of inclusions and multiple views of multi-source documents. Particular attention is also given to the idea of making inclusions transparent to both users and applications. An engine producing composite documents, with rich information about inclusions, and a viewer for modularized XML documents are presented as well.

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Transclusions in an HTML-Based Environment

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

Hyperorders and transclusion

Hyperorders and transclusion

Harnessing semantic web technologies for solving the dilemma of content providers

From XML inclusions to XML transclusions

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