Commentary 148 Hypermedia systems in the new millennium Introduction to This Classic Reprint and Commentaries Bob Waite Dept 52X, Bldg 004-2 IBM Corporation Rochester, MN 55901 rwaite@us.ibm.com Frank Halasz, Seven Issues Each August, the ACM Journal of Computer Documentation reprints a classic article, book chapter, or report along with several analytical commentaries and a response by the author of the classic document. In this context, a classic document means one that was published at least five years ago but is no longer in print. It also means one that raises issues of lasting importance to the profession. The article featured in the current issue certainly qualifies as a classic. Frank Halasz, Reflections on NoteCards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems, grew out of his closing keynote address at the ACM Hypertext 87 Conference (Halasz, 1987) and was published in the Communications of the ACM the following year (Halasz, 1988). Halasz s article focuses on seven fundamental weaknesses in the hypermedia model underlying NoteCards, that is, on the ways in which the system falls short in meeting the needs and preferences of its users (Halasz, 1988, p. 841): 1. Search and
/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/hypermedia-systems-in-the-new-millennium-introduction-to-this-classic-fQkmo0EOTf