Some times ago I’ve seen an interesting project, called Co-link…
This project is about the possibility to edit and insert a link where the user wants in the page that he is reading on the Web.
This technology was developed with the objective of letting any interactant create new associative links in a pre-existent text and/or add new destinations to a previous link.
The idea is nice: the user can insert in any esistent word in the text a link and also insert a new link in a pre-esistent link…
Another idea is this: multilink…
A multilink, or mlink, is a link that goes to one or more destinations.
A multilink is rendered as a popup menu that presents the targets as a list of menu items.
An item can be selected from the menu to follow the URL of the target, or a special item called “edit” can be selected to add, remove, or modify the targets of the multilink.
Targets are not embedded in the markup, but rather, stored in an external metafile linked to but exists independently from the page where the multilinks are defined.
Now the idea is not totally bad, but IMHO it’s dangerous…
There is an interesting discussion on Slashdot on it:
-> Multiple-Target Hyperlinks for the Masses
In fact when you find useful a tool like this, you have to understand that you include a semantic effort in the link concept…without using a standard way to make this semantic effort understandable by machines..
We can do it using RDF…
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