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An important application of hypertext is the making and receiving of “annotations”—critical or explanatory notes added to a text. Rather than thinking of annotations as an application of hypertext systems, however, most hypertext system designers believe that hypertext systems are annotation systems; that is, they believe that annotations are “for free” in hypertext. After all, the reasoning runs, a hypertext system is, by definition, a system that allows users to create nodes and links between them; in particular, users can create text nodes and link those text nodes to nodes containing explanatory text; ergo, a hypertext system is an annotation system.
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Neuwirth, C.M., Chandhok, R., Kaufer, D.S., Morris, J.H., Erion, P., Miller, D. (1995). Annotations are not “for free”: The Need for Runtime Layer Support in Hypertext Engines. In: Schuler, W., Hannemann, J., Streitz, N. (eds) Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia. Research Reports ESPRIT, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45743-2_16
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