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May 15, 2020

Ended up in quite the research rabbit hole exploring the historical origins of Bi-directional links this week. Involves Project Xanadu, early internet spats, and Memex machines. Sketched out some of the basic concepts and wrote up a little garden note: maggieappleton.com/bidirectionals

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Sarven Capadisli

@csarven

May 15, 2020

Webby bidi-links possible w/ W3C specs: Web Annotation: w3c.github.io/web-annotation/ Linked Data Notifications: w3.org/TR/ldn/ Any resource may have its own inbox to receive notifications about activities eg csarven.ca/dokieli-rww Grab coffee: csarven.ca/linked-researc

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Nice refs! Thanks for sending those through. Will take a look - the whole page is an ongoing research note so it'll evolve as I learn more :)

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You've articulated/illustrated the essence well. Web doesn't have bidi-linking (original Hypertext) on the infrastructure level but there are ways to mimic/resemble eg. HTML has elements to embed resources that can also reference but not true "transclusion" as TN frames it.

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See also interactive diagram about Web Annotation: w3.org/annotation/dia Overview of Linked Data Notifications: w3.org/TR/ldn/linked- Approach w/ decentralisation goggles on eg. an article, annotation, inbox/notification can be controlled by different authorities and policies

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