Publishing Trails

Mozwho is a rather opportunistically directed project.  Low hanging fruit are picked as we meander through data sets and UI constructions. 

One killer app that's been rising in my conversations in this space is publishing web pages as a result of browsing trails, an idea that I think can be appropriately credited to VB's memex. 

At Hypertext '03: Navigation, Path-centric browsing, Navigation metaphors, Directed paths, Walden's Paths, Path Engine.

Walden's Paths is a project to allow teachers to create guided trails for classroom instruction.  They use a framed approach -- perhaps a Mozilla add-on client would be a nice addition.

Try a path on functional programming, or Cervantes.

The ability to add commentary digested with the page in question is a meaningful distinction from even a well annotated link list -- our target functionality in MozWho.

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Compound Elements

There's also some nice work on identifying documents spread across URLs at HT03.  The term is "compound elements" and aims to facilate operations on documents, not pages.

K.McCurley's done lots of other interesting work, including the notable "Surfing the web backwards".
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