The sort of information we are discussing answers, for example, questions like Where is this module used? Who wrote this code? Where does he work? What documents exist about that concept? Which laboratories are included in that project? Which systems depend on this device? What documents refer to this one?
I therefore produced a version for the VMS, and have used it to keep track of projects, people, groups, experiments, software modules and hardware devices with which I have worked. I have found it personally very useful. I have made no effort to make it suitable for general consumption, but have found that a few people have successfully used it to ...
"Hypertext": Human-readable information linked together in an unconstrained way.
Non-Centralisation Information systems start small and grow. They also start isolated and then merge. A new system must allow existing systems to be linked together without requiring any central control or coordination.
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