Scholarly Publishing and
Argument in Hyperspace
Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum,
Gangmin Li, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
21 May 2003
Digital library
management
addresses
Text search
improvesOn
Search of link
structure
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Path matching
Hypertext
argumentation
research
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
addresses
Virtual communities
sharesIssuesWith
Shared modeling
space
ClaiMaker system
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Citations
addresses
improvesOn
Representing
Discourse ontology
interpretation Uses/applies/
links
isEnabledBy
improvesOn
Uren et al. (2003). Scholarly publishing & argument
in hyperspace, WWW2003
Untyped hyperlinks
Digital library
management
addresses
Text search
improvesOn
Search of link
structure
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Path matching
Hypertext
argumentation
research
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
addresses
Virtual communities
sharesIssuesWith
Shared modeling
space
ClaiMaker system
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Citations
addresses
improvesOn
Representing
Discourse ontology
interpretation Uses/applies/
links
isEnabledBy
improvesOn
Uren et al. (2003). Scholarly publishing & argument
in hyperspace, WWW2003
Untyped hyperlinks
Digital library
management
• Web as document repository
• Distributed resources and users
• Hard questions for digital libraries
– “Who disagrees?”
– “Where did this idea come from?”
Hypertext
argumentation
research
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Clearer thinking
Modelling as craft
Schema complexity trade-off
Interface design is crucial
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Distributed users
Who might use it?
What is the motive?
What is the cost?
What is the benefit?
Reducing costs
Virtual communities
sharesIssuesWith
Shared modeling
space
– Better modelling tools
– Templates to get beginners started
• Increasing benefits
– Services
• Links are more stable than objects
• Links represent the mechanism of
debates
• Links have properties
– Type
– Polarity
– Weight
Representing
Discourse ontology
interpretation Uses/applies/
links
isEnabledBy
Relations: Discourse Ontology
• No semantics limits automatic processing
• Limits services
Citations
improvesOn
Discourse ontology
links
improvesOn
Untyped hyperlinks
Text search
improvesOn
Search of link
structure
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Path matching
• Text gives topic word search
• Hypertext & citation gives
search of untyped links
• Typed links guide semantic
search through pathmatching
Filtering and interrogating the
network
• Once the network becomes large we
need more than browsing
• Neighbourhood (semantic citations)
• Supports/Contrast
• Lineage
Neighbourhood…
What documents challenge this?
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Extract concepts for this document
Trace concepts on which they build
Trace concepts challenging this set
Show root documents
What does this work build on?
• Path definition
– Uses/applies/isEnabledBy (out)
– ImprovesOn (out)
– Similarity (in/out)
Digital library
management
addresses
Text search
improvesOn
Search of link
structure
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Path matching
Hypertext
argumentation
research
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
addresses
Virtual communities
sharesIssuesWith
Shared modeling
space
ClaiMaker system
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Citations
addresses
improvesOn
Representing
Discourse ontology
interpretation Uses/applies/
links
isEnabledBy
improvesOn
Uren et al. (2003). Scholarly publishing & argument
in hyperspace, WWW2003
Untyped hyperlinks
Digital library
management
addresses
Text search
improvesOn
Search of link
structure
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Path matching
Hypertext
argumentation
research
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
addresses
Virtual communities
sharesIssuesWith
Shared modeling
space
ClaiMaker system
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Citations
addresses
improvesOn
Representing
Discourse ontology
interpretation Uses/applies/
links
isEnabledBy
improvesOn
Uren et al. (2003). Scholarly publishing & argument
in hyperspace, WWW2003
Untyped hyperlinks
Scenarios
• Individual/group tool for analysis
• Introducing complex domains
– Teaching aid
– Analyst summary to clients
• Towards semantic publishing in a
‘network-native’ form – moving beyond
the prose document…
Digital library
management
addresses
Hypertext
argumentation
research
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
addresses
Shared modeling
space
ClaiMaker system
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
Search of link
structure
Uses/applies/
isEnabledBy
addresses
Representing
interpretation
Discourse ontology
links