docuverse

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Docuverse is Ted Nelson’s visionary concept of a universal, interconnected digital library where all documents are permanently linked and traceable across a global hypertext system.

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instanceOf hypertext concept
visionary computing idea
associatedWithPerson Theodor Holm Nelson
contrastedWith one-way links of the World Wide Web
coreIdea all documents are interconnected
all documents are permanently linked
all documents are traceable
bidirectional links between documents
fine-grained linking at the level of document fragments
global citation tracking
global network of hypertext documents
non-destructive editing of documents
persistent addressing of documents
royalty and credit tracking for authors
transclusion of content
versioned documents
creator Ted Nelson
dataModel network of interlinked documents
non-hierarchical structure of information
describedBy Ted Nelson
documentedIn Computer Lib / Dream Machines
Literary Machines
emphasizes authorship attribution
bidirectional linking
granular addressability of text
micropayments or royalties for reuse
preservation of document history
stable, permanent links
traceability of every reference
envisionedAs global infrastructure for hypertext publishing
worldwide repository of interconnected knowledge
furtherDevelopedIn 1970s
1980s
goal create a universal library of all writings
enable users to follow links between any related documents
preserve the context of every quotation and reference
prevent loss and fragmentation of digital documents
support intellectual property management in hypertext
hasAlternativeName global hypertext system
universal digital library
influenced later hypertext thinking
partOfConceptualFramework Project Xanadu
proposedInField hypertext research
information science
relatedTo World Wide Web
Xanadu hypertext system
scope global
status largely unrealized vision
timePeriodConceptualized 1960s

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Ted Nelson
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