CONTACTS 
0201 - Bootstrap Institute
020101 - Mr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Ph.D.

SUBJECTS
Engelbart, Doug
Objective OHS Development Vector, Doug, 000405
Editor Development
OHS Development Vector, Doug, 000405

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1206 -    ..
1207 - Summary/Objective
1208 -
120801 - Follow up ref SDS 56 7280, ref SDS 54 7280.
120802 -
120803 - Received ideas from Doug on a path for developing an Editor, which
120804 - seems to be the OHS capability.  WBI is a transcoder for viewing MS
120805 - Word files in HTML. ref SDS 0 6006 Doug proposes starting with email.
120806 - ref SDS 0 2484
120807 -
120808 -    [On 000406 at the weekly DKR progress meeting a plan was set for
120809 -    Doug to present this vector at the next meeting on 000413.
120810 -    ref SDS 63 5880
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120814 -  ..
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1211 - Progress
121201 -  ..
121202 - OHS Editor High Immediate Utility, Unique Usage to Outside Users
121203 -
121204 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Doug Engelbart providing a development
121205 - plan for the OHS effort.  My sense is that the XML editor and the OHS
121206 - are the same thing.  this supplements his call on 000326 for DKR team
121207 - to use existing tools for gaining experience to develop improvements.
121208 - ref SDS 54 5972
121210 -  ..
121211 - On 000327 Doug cited his 1972 paper that describes Knowledge
121212 - Management. ref SDS 56 3971
121214 -  ..
121215 - Doug describes this submission as...
121216 -
121217 -                    ..
121218 -                 OHS development candidate vector
121219 -
121220 -
121221 - ...and says...
121222 -
121223 -       ...OHS Tool System Architecture -- e.g., integrated editing and
121224 -       multi-class UIS.  But it would have high immediate utility, and
121225 -       provide unique usage experience to many "outside users," and
121226 -       especially to categories of web users we'll want to have become
121227 -       seriously involved in subsequent co-evolution. ref DRT 1 2080
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SUBJECTS
Procedures and Tools Transcoding, IBM's WBI, 000324
Multiple Views WBI Transcoding Vector Identified
Multiple Views, Transcoding, e.g., WBI, IBM
Multiple View Control OHS Min Element, 000614
WBI Transcoding, 000413 Multiple Views Transcoding, 000413
Multiple Views Multiple Windows Links Enhance Understanding Computer

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220901 -  ..
220902 - Multiple Views Supported by IBM's WBI Program
220903 - IBM's WBI Program Supports Flexibility for Alternate Views
220904 -
220905 - Follow up ref SDS 52 7568.
220906 -
220907 - Doug proposes heavy involvement of IBM's WBI (Web-Based Intermediary),
220908 - ref DRT 1 7315, to support planning for developing technology that
220909 - enables multiple views. (see below. ref SDS 0 6O8L)
220910 -
220911 -        [On 000413 IBM makes presentation on WBI. ref SDS 64 5148
220912 -
220913 -     A.  URLs targeted toward designated files would be intercepted
220914 -         by WBI.
220915 -         ..
220916 -         Likely have extended syntax to these "URLs" -- see
220917 -         below.
220919 -          ..
220920 -     B.  WBI retrieves the designated file from the designated server
220922 -          ..
220923 -     C.  WBI "transcodes" the designated file into transcoded-file
220924 -         form which the user's browswer can access and display.
220926 -             ..
220927 -            Doug's call for supporting "multiple views" lines up with
220928 -            his 1992 paper, reviewed on 991222. ref SDS 31 57HE  At
220929 -            that time, analysis shows that SDS support for multiple
220930 -            views implemented in multiple ways has multiple benefits,
220931 -            ref SDS 31 LU3F
220933 -             ..
220934 -            Need example of a file that needs to be transcoded for
220935 -            display in the Web browser, would this be a Powerpoint
220936 -            file, or a spreadsheet?
220937 -
220938 -               Maybe this is answered below. ref SDS 0 3479
220940 -             ..
220941 -            How does transcoding augment human capabilities?
220943 -             ..
220944 -            How will the DKR use this differently from the way IBM
220945 -            or anyone else is using it now?
220947 -             ..
220948 -            Can DKR add utility or "value" to WBI?
220949 -
220951 -          ..
220952 -         Transcoding Affix Purple Numbers for Target Link Anchors
220953 -         Purple Numbers for Target Explicit Links to Aid Addressablity
220954 -         Addressablity Supported by Transcluding Using Purple Numbers
220955 -         Transcluding Using Purple Numbers for Full Addressability
220956 -
220957 -         Simple step -- if designated file is HTML, then the
220958 -         transcoding employs reproducible algorithm to affix "purple
220959 -         numbers" as target-tags-on, and links-to each paragraph
220960 -         ("label/link tags").
220961 -
220962 -            Every time this file goes through this retrieval and
220963 -            transcoding process, it will have the same label/link
220964 -            tags affixed to the sme paragraphs, so that e.g. "#5B" on
220965 -            a user-transmitted URL would always position her browser
220966 -            window to the same "5B-labelled" paragraph.
220968 -          ..
220969 -         Added nicety -- INDIRECT LINKING:  Special syntax on the
220970 -         initial UL indicates, "go to position X in File Y, pick up
220971 -         the link there, then do the above transcoding on that URL's
220972 -         designated file."
220973 -
220974 -            "Transcluding" is another name for this feature.
220975 -
220976 -                [On 020214 Gary Johnson sets objective for using
220977 -                transcluding. ref SDS 87 5P9V
220979 -                 ..
220980 -                [On 030524 Gary Johnson submits letter with example
220981 -                showing transcluding application. ref SDS 92 PQRP
220983 -          ..
220984 -         Serious "OTHER-FILE LINKING" -- where the designated file is
220985 -         not one which the browser can position or display.  E.g.,
220986 -         "native file fors" of MS Word, Lotus Notes, ..., or especially
220987 -         software source-code, requirements, specifications, status
220988 -         reports, user guides, etc.
220989 -
220990 -            The transcoding produces specialy structured and
220991 -            formatted HTML (likely later extended into XML), with
220992 -            label/link additions.
220994 -          ..
220995 -         Then, when files are transcoded into browser-readable form,
220996 -         the transcoder would provide optional, additional
220997 -         "deliverable" alterations to the content (and
220998 -         formatting/structuring) to create any special "views."
220999 -         ref DRT 1 UL5J
221001 -             ..
221002 -            Considerable "co-evolution" here, exploring optional ways
221003 -            to do the structuring, formatting and viewing.
221005 -                ..
221006 -               [On 000601 Doug discussed design to support multiple
221007 -               views. ref SDS 70 7238
221009 -                ..
221010 -               [On 001025 multiple views incorporated into OHS launch
221011 -               plan. ref SDS 76 D6H8
221013 -                ..
221014 -               [On 010221 multiple views cited in paper by Michael Zack
221015 -               on application by TRI. ref SDS 82 GE8J
221017 -          ..
221018 -     D.  WBI sends the transcoded file to the user's browser to
221019 -         satisfy the location/view specs held in the
221020 -         (extended-syntax) URL.
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SUBJECTS
Engelbart, Doug
Objective OHS Development Vector, Doug, 000405
Editor Development
Procedures and Tools Transcoding, IBM's WBI, 000324
Schedule for OHS Development Vector, Doug, 000405
Email Hyperdocuments Integrate
Email Improves with Links, Doug Sets for Team, 000405
Email XML Seed Team Use What is Available, 000302
Addressible Links in Email Top Priority
Knowledge Space Requires Knowledge Workers Com Mangaers
Intelligence Converts Information Overload from IT into Usefule Knowl
Webmail Anytime Anywhere Intelligence on Internet Provides Addressabi
Email Addressability Linking Hyperdocuments Integrate, Doug Engelbart
Engelbar, Doug KM Expert Fails Use Links Create Connected Record Desp

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881701 -  ..
881702 - Addressability in Email Needed to Perform OHS/DKR Project
881703 - Schedule Calls for First Adding Links in DKR-web Email and Docs
881704 -
881705 - Follow up ref SDS 52 5880.
881706 -
881707 - Doug's letter, ref DRT 1 7056, clarifies instructions on 000324, by
881708 - proposing...
881709 -
881710 -     A.  First, to get addressable label/link tags installed in our own
881711 -         DKR-web email and docs.
881713 -          ..
881714 -     B.  Then, general web documents -- so we can begin usefully to
881715 -         cite specific passages in anybody's web pages.
881717 -  ..
881718 - These requirements were presented by Eric Armstrong's plan on 000120
881719 - to combine email and hyperdocuments, ref SDS 32 3871, based on Doug's
881720 - Colloquium at Stanford.  More recently, on 000327 Doug explained
881721 - details of knowledge management he feels can be supported by
881722 - technology. ref SDS 56 3971
881724 -  ..
881725 - SDS supports using technology to strengthen human reasoning and
881726 - intelligence, illustrated by this record, and planned on 971021,
881727 - ref SDS 19 3636  This was discussed with Doug on 991222, ref SDS 31
881728 - F34J  At that time Doug requested review of his 1992 paper presenting
881729 - objectives for an OHS.  It calls for adding links to correspondence,
881730 - ref SDS 31 1Z61.  Doug cited the Vannevar Bush proposal presented in a
881731 - famous article published in 1945, ref SDS 31 XS6N, calling for
881732 - technology that enables people to construct and apply trails of
881733 - associations, reviewed on 960304. ref SDS 11 HE6L  Explicit links
881734 - empower people to create connections for an "audit trail" that
881735 - provides traceability to orginal sources, called out in management
881736 - standards reviewed on 950721. ref SDS 8 1740 "Connections" complement
881737 - chronology and context to improve human memory and impart logic that
881738 - leverages intelligence for understanding cause and effect, explained
881739 - in POIMS. ref OF 1 8555
881741 -  ..
881742 - On 000302 Eugene Kim called for Doug's team to use existing tools for
881743 - knowledge work, rather than SDS to support adding connections to
881744 - correspondence. ref SDS 40 0896  A few days later, on 000307 the team
881745 - learned that doing knowledge management with conventional technology
881746 - is a lot of hard work that people are unwilling to do. ref SDS 44 767G
881747 - At this time, there is no record that anyone has implemented Doug's
881748 - requirement using other tools.  There is a lot of talk about creating
881749 - support tools, but, apart from SDS, no one knows how to create
881750 - technology that enables knowledge work, as presented in Doug's letter
881751 - on 000327. ref SDS 56 3971
881753 -            ..
881754 -           [On 000419 Doug submits vector calling for OHS tool system
881755 -           launch foundation. ref SDS 67 2130
881757 -            ..
881758 -           [On 000427 Lee Iverson explains weblog technologies that
881759 -           accomplish addressability in communciations. ref SDS 69 5985
881761 -            ..
881762 -           [On 000601 Doug calls for addressability in email again.
881763 -           ref SDS 70 2760
881765 -            ..
881766 -           [On 000623 Jack Park proposes ideas for addressability.
881767 -           ref SDS 72 5475
881769 -            ..
881770 -           [On 000810 enhanced links in webmail. ref SDS 73 RD05
881772 -            ..
881773 -           [On 000811 Eric Armstrong objects to links in email.
881774 -           ref SDS 74 OS6F
881776 -            ..
881777 -           [On 000814 Eric reports Doug proposes "Rod Welch" system.
881778 -           ref SDS 75 PU5N  Eric objects to links in email. ref SDS 75
881779 -           FJ5H
881781 -            ..
881782 -           [On 001025 addressability in phase I OHS development launch
881783 -           plan. ref SDS 76 D3W8
881785 -            ..
881786 -           [On 001027 Doug reported nobody has done this. ref SDS 77
881787 -           0001
881789 -            ..
881790 -           [On 001121 offered SDS to use webmail for learning about
881791 -           knowledge management. ref SDS 78 XU8I
881793 -            ..
881794 -           [On 001126 Eugene Kim submitted plans for using conventional
881795 -           email with greater diligence to learn KM, ref SDS 79 BY4K,
881796 -           team members worried this will take too much hard work and
881797 -           too much time. ref SDS 79 B15I
881799 -            ..
881800 -           [On 010114 case study illustrates SDS records on the
881801 -           Internet enables people to increase competence for solving
881802 -           complex problems by applying lessons of the past available
881803 -           through a connected record that Doug proposes. ref SDS 80
881804 -           0001
881806 -            ..
881807 -           [On 010119 Doug advises of a presentation on addressablity
881808 -           without adding anchors to original sources on the web.
881809 -           ref SDS 81 945L
881811 -            ..
881812 -           [On 010908 Jack Park explained the appeal of "fools gold"
881813 -           using information technology that resists advancing to
881814 -           knowledge tools for saving time and money, because doing
881815 -           nothing is fast and easier than using links to verify
881816 -           accuracy. ref SDS 83 YF5O
881818 -            ..
881819 -           [On 010916 Eric Armstrong reports SDS enables amazing memory
881820 -           with mechanisms that obviusly work for finding everything.
881821 -           ref SDS 84 0001
881823 -            ..
881824 -           [On 010916 Eric Armstrong worried that nobody can find
881825 -           anything using information technology that everyboyd likes.
881826 -           ref SDS 85 KA6H
881828 -            ..
881829 -           [On 010917 Eugene announces plans for a dialog mapping
881830 -           system to make use of valuable information that is hidden in
881831 -           OHS/DKR email archives. ref SDS 85 S44G
881833 -            ..
881834 -           [On 020224 Eugene releases mpurple v0.2 with improvements to
881835 -           purple numbers, ref SDS 88 XW9N, and has applied this to
881836 -           email on the OHS/DKR project. ref SDS 88 EC4L
881838 -            ..
881839 -           [On 020820 Murray Altheim reported people fail to use
881840 -           explicit links, ref SDS 89 UV6G, because accuracy for
881841 -           communication takes too much effort without SDS, ref SDS 90
881842 -           VN6H; experts who promoted purple numbers all seem to have
881843 -           given up adding granular addressability for working
881844 -           intelligently. ref SDS 89 0K64
881846 -            ..
881847 -           [On 030314 Eugene developed Blueoxen website for email; no
881848 -           evidence of use, but reports say people are using links.
881849 -           ref SDS 91 5661
881851 -            ..
881852 -           [On 070831 report purple numbers abandoned because using
881853 -           explicit links to improve accuracy of daily work takes too
881854 -           much time finding sources to link. ref SDS 93 FM3F
881856 -  ..
881857 - Doug's letter on 000405 continues...
881858 -
881859 -     C.  Then begin providing useful view options in our DKR email and
881860 -         docs
881862 -          ..
881863 -         Need example of "view options"
881864 -
881865 -             [On 000608 muliple views was discussed during meeting at
881866 -             SRI. ref SDS 71 7238
881867 -
881868 -         -- and on "out" to anybody's web pages..
881870 -          ..
881871 -     D.  Then pick a target software-development environment:
881872 -         source-code language? Likely trial-user communities?
881874 -          ..
881875 -     E.  In collaboration with trial-user community, establish and
881876 -         implement initial set of transcoding specs for project source
881877 -         code, requirements, specs, project status reports, relevant
881878 -         email dialog, user docs, ... toward a trial prototype
881879 -         software-development environment.
881880 -
881881 -              [On 001025 transcoding and translating seems to be
881882 -              accomplished by Hyperscope. ref SDS 76 A5U6
881884 -          ..
881885 -         NOTE:  Of special potential, for a targeted user communities,
881886 -         be the Open-Source OHS-Developer Community.
881888 -          ..
881889 -     F.  During all of this, establish a healthy set of user
881890 -         representatives as active stakeholders in the co-evolution of
881891 -         human- and tool-system development.
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