Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 20 Issue 1

HYPERTEXT BROWSING: A NEW MODEL FOR INFORMATION FILTERING BASED ON USER PROFILES AND DATA CLUSTERING

Bracha Shapira, Peretz Shoval, Adi Raveh, Uri Hanani

Hypertext users often experience the ‘lost in hyperspace’ problem. This study suggests a solution which restricts the amount of information made available to the user, thus…

WORLD WIDE WEB‐BASED INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

Kevin C. O'Kane

This paper describes the design and implementation of a system for computer generation of linked HTML documents to support information retrieval and hypertext applications on the…

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (ISSUE 7)

Martha E. Williams, Linda C. Smith

This is the seventh article on science, technology and medicine databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. Two companion…

CDROM: A MEDIUM FOR AFRICA IN THE YEAR 2000 AND BEYOND

Gashaw Kebede

When I was invited ‘to shoot arrows at the year 2000’ to predict what would happen with the use of CDROM products and services in Africa by then, mixed feelings and thoughts first…

PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMATS

Acrobat, Envoy and Common Ground all launched commercially within a few months of each other in 1994, as did a format called Farallon Replica that will no longer be marketed from…

ETHICS ON THE INTERNET

Two speakers at Online 95 spoke on the contentious subjects of censorship and other ethical matters on the Internet. Charles Oppenheim, then of the University of Strathclyde…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

Collaboration the way forward for FT and Moody's. The first fruits of a collaboration between the Financial Times and Moody's F1S was unveiled at Online Information 95 in the…