don@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins) (01/19/89)
> I was looking through the SEX tape (great stuff in general) and noticed > sex/news-tape/db. Is is a database that uses HyperTIES, but the HyperTIES > doesn't seem to be on the tape. Can anyone tell me more about this and/or > where to get it. HyperTIES is a hypertext system that we're developing here at the UMD Human Computer Interaction Lab, under Ben Shneiderman's direction. There is a version for the PC, distributed by Cognetics. (The PC version of the "HyperText on HyperText" database distritibed by ACM uses HyperTIES.) The NeWS version, cties, is not finished yet. I put together the news-tape database to keep track of all the software and authors, to flush out bugs by using it, and to try out a few ideas. We're still in the process of documenting and implementing it, and hope to be able to distribute it when it's done. The database is human readable, and useful enough that I put it on the tape. -Don