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<td><strong>Wk</strong>
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<td><strong>Date</strong>
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<td><strong>Topics</strong>
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<td><strong>Assignments (Due the Following Week)</strong>
</td>
<td><strong>Labs</strong>
</td>
<td><strong>Slides & Recordings</strong>
</td>
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<td>1
</td>
<td>9/8
</td>
<td>Intro
<p>
Who Are We?
<p>
Objectives, Mechanics, Assignments, Grading
<p>
Why Are We Teaching This Course?
<p>
What is Hypertext/Hypermedia? (Discussion)
<p>
Examples of Hypertext Content & Systems
<p>
Origins of Data and Information Processing Analog Hypertext Forerunners
</td>
<td>Reading
<ul>
<li> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1camJT_KLoGnAp4i4yuAPFMm6qutUYMpaqjYmfodz_3Q/">Missive</a>
<li> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQY5Hpm10Oj9D2xmm0mIzyDVG5oaXyBRc_T576Njd5n7emePU4lt1y-05dRa64XQiuxdyHeIFiEwiwr/pub">Syllabus</a>
<p>
Reading & Annotation
<ul>
<li>[<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT4ObdiTE-IrAexCfA-3wrddOaa-vBKGmTmz2EGyEsGoH_WN-aB1PsFjMX-XS7zdOMURqEZPSO0JYBL/pub">Using Hypothes.is</a>] <a href="https://dl-acm-org.revproxy.brown.edu/doi/pdf/10.1145/227181.227186">As We May Think</a>
<p>
Programming
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1951-v/assignments/assignment0.html">Assignment 0: Setup</a>
<p>
Videos to Watch
<ul>
<li> <a href="https://youtu.be/bGGxdF0Pn4g?t=414">Intermedia Demo</a> [6:54 - 20:26]
<li> <a href="https://www.notion.so/browndash/Interactive-Travel-Guide-ec40e6ad9b714561b4c69a481a6d9a6d">Dash Interactive Travel Guide</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td><a href="https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a5c7fe6b-9bfd-4c4a-816c-ad9d0172f31b">Lecture Capture</a>
<p>
<a href="https://1drv.ms/p/s!AnZtol0o-8buwOQrRAKD904ExUpSgQ?e=2FQJMO">Lecture Slides</a>
<p>
<a href="https://1drv.ms/b/s!AnZtol0o-8buwOQuOS7wurhoCHZp5w?e=jgYqdG">Lecture PDF</a>
</td>
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<tr>
<td>2
</td>
<td>9/15
</td>
<td>Readings Discussion
<p>
Hypertext Terminology
<p>
Key Capabilities of Hypertext
<p>
The Beginnings of Text Processing
<p>
What Sparked Digital Hypertext?
<p>
Digital Hypertext Pioneers
<p>
Architecture Part I: Nodes
</td>
<td>Reading & Annotation ( Look at hypothes.is to see what parts to read and annotate) <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT4ObdiTE-IrAexCfA-3wrddOaa-vBKGmTmz2EGyEsGoH_WN-aB1PsFjMX-XS7zdOMURqEZPSO0JYBL/pub">Instructions</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cs.brown.edu/people/nmeyrowi/LiteraryMachinesChapter2.pdf">Literary Machines</a> (1981 Edition)
<li><a href="https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/140/">A research center for augmenting human intellect</a> (1968) -- Read sections 1 - 3
<p>
Videos
<ul>
<li>Watch <a href="https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/374/464/">excerpts</a> of “The Mother of All Demos” -- <a href="https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/374/464/#:~:text=NLS%20Editing%20%26%20View,on%20this%20later.">NLS Editing, NLS Hypermedia, Putting It to Work</a>, <a href="https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/374/464/#:~:text=3.%20Keyset%3A%20To,with%20both%20hands.">Keyset, Control Dialog</a>, <a href="https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/374/464/#:~:text=aid%20of%20sorts.-,USAGE,and%20%22Cold%22%20Retrieval%20where%20it%27s%20unknown%20%7C%20both%20direct%20and%20indirect,-ACTIVITIES">Usage</a>
<p>
Programming
<ul>
<li>Lab 1: Nodes (9/16, 9/17)
<li>Assignment 1: Nodes (Released 9/16, Due 9/27)
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>Lab 1: Nodes (9/16, 9/17)
</td>
<td><a href="https://1drv.ms/p/s!AnZtol0o-8buwORn0goiDcdE_6g7Ug?e=ej0Hiv">Lecture Slides</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3
</td>
<td>9/22
</td>
<td>Thoughts on Intermedia & Dash (Discussion)
<p>
Technical Evolution Leading to the Web
<p>
Origins and Early History of World Wide Web
<p>
Dimensions of Hypertext/Hypermedia
</td>
<td>Reading & Annotation (Look at hypothes.is to see what parts to read and annotate)
<p>
Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989: <a href="https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html">Original WWW Proposal</a>
<p>
Time Magazine 2001: <a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,137689,00.html">The Man Who Invented the Web</a>
<p>
Content Creation
<ul>
<li>Experiment with Hypertext in <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vpb2FulwFNLm7yuBmrm4ZjC_YCuMiKty/view?usp=sharing">Intermedia </a>(2 wks)
<li>Build Hypermedia Corpus in Dash (2 wks)
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>Optional: How the Internet & Web Work
<p>
Content Creation Lab:
<p>
Dash/
<p>
Intermedia
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4
</td>
<td>9/29
</td>
<td>Engelbart, Berners-Lee papers (Discussion)
<p>
Comparison of Systems - Radar Diagrams
<p>
Architecture Part II: Anchors & Links
</td>
<td>Programming
<ul>
<li>Assignment 2: Anchors & Links (Released 9/30, Due 10/11)
<p>
Content Creation
<ul>
<li> Collaborative Hypertext/Presentation Trails (Released 9/29, Due 10/13)
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>Lab 2: Anchors & Links (9/30, 10/01)
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5
</td>
<td>10/6
</td>
<td>Types of Hypertext Systems, Part I
<p>
“Dream”-based
<p>
Frame/Screen/Card-based Systems
<p>
Multi-card systems
<p>
General-Purpose
<p>
Programming-based
<p>
Documentation-Oriented
<p>
Transclusion-based
<p>
Outliners
<p>
Notetaking Systems
</td>
<td>Supplemental Reading (no annotation)
<ul>
<li><a href="https://hyp.is/jXwGWLZ8EeqKiz_ziCA0uQ/www.computer.org/csdl/pds/api/csdl/proceedings/download-article/12OmNCd2rqa/pdf">Concordia</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6
</td>
<td>10/13
</td>
<td>Dash Presentations
<p>
Architecture Part III
<p>
Anchor Tracking & Editable Nodes
</td>
<td>Programming
<ul>
<li>Assignment 3: Editable Nodes & Anchor Tracking (Released 10/14, Due 10/25)
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>Lab 3: Editable Nodes(10/14, 10/15)
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7
</td>
<td>10/20
</td>
<td>Competitive Analysis
<p>
Architecture Part IV
<p>
Animation & Hypermedia
<p>
Temporal Hypermedia
<p>
Interactive Video
</td>
<td>Writing
<p>
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JWIkzU8QB2fYcfYdTZXZslvrGiwjXPcH/view">Notetaking - Competitive Analysis </a>
<ul>
<li>Released 10/20, Due 10/27
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
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<tr>
<td>8
</td>
<td>10/27
</td>
<td>Competitive Analysis Discussion
<p>
Annotation
<p>
Metadata
<p>
Visualizing Links
<p>
Search/Filtering/Viewspecs
<p>
Search Architecture
</td>
<td>Supplemental Reading (no annotation)
<p>
<a href="https://dl-acm-org.revproxy.brown.edu/doi/pdf/10.1145/345966.346021">Three Dimensional Visualization of the WWW</a>
<p>
Advanced Search ArchitectureProgramming
<ul>
<li>Assignment 4: Additional Hypertext Features (Released 10/28, Due 11/8)
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>Lab 4: Additional Hypertext Features (10/28, 10/29)
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9
</td>
<td>11/3
</td>
<td>Advanced Search Architecture
<p>
Collaborative Content Demos
<p>
Types of Hypertext Systems, Part II
<p>
Locative
<p>
Spatial
<p>
Wikis
<p>
Blogs
<p>
Shared Board Systems
<p>
Graphs/Mindmaps/Concept
<p>
Maps/Argumentation
<p>
Google Apps
<p>
Generated Hypertext/Content Mgmt
<p>
Website Builders
<p>
Hybrid (e.g., Wordpress)
</td>
<td>Read and Annotate
<p>
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/?utm_source=DamnInteresting">The Atlantic: The Internet is Rotting</a>
<p>
Supplemental Reading (no annotations)
<p>
<a href="https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/37043.pdf">Indexing The World Wide Web: The Journey So Far</a>
<p>
( Seminal Paper on Google Search)
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
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<tr>
<td>10
</td>
<td>11/10
</td>
<td>Discussion (Addressing & Permanence)
<p>
Architecture Part V
<p>
Addressing & Permanence
<p>
Versioning, Transfer, and Exchange
<p>
Collaboration
</td>
<td>Read and Annotate
<ul>
<li><a href="https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~cgutierr/cursos/IC/semantic-web.pdf">The Semantic Web (Seminal Article)</a>
<p>
<a href="https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html#annotations:H-vXgs1UEequrW_k1f_VDQ">Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?</a>
<p>
Final Project
<ul>
<li>Deliverable 0: Group Formation
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11
</td>
<td>11/17
</td>
<td>The Semantic Web
<p>
Advertising
<p>
Invited Speaker: Dennis Buchheim
<p>
Tracking of Individuals
<p>
The Distributed Web of the Future
</td>
<td>Final Project
<ul>
<li>Deliverable 1: System Description and mockups
<p>
Watch
<ul>
<li>The Social Dilemma
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12
</td>
<td>12/1
</td>
<td>Discussion
<p>
Societal Implications Part I
<p>
Invited Speaker: danah boyd
</td>
<td>Final Project
<ul>
<li>Deliverable 2: Backend and setup
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
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<tr>
<td>13
</td>
<td>12/8
</td>
<td>Societal Implications Part I
<p>
Review
<p>
Conclusion
<p>
Where We Are Now?
<p>
What Have We Learned?
<p>
Where Do We Go From Here?
</td>
<td>Final Project
<ul>
<li>Deliverable 3: Frontend and testing
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14
</td>
<td>12/14
</td>
<td>Final Project Presentations
<p>
Final Words
</td>
<td>Final Project
<ul>
<li> Deliverable 4: Presentation and Demo
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
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