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Unit 11: Knowledge Organization and Management
Notes
Example: While reading document about Mozart, you might click on the phrase Violin
Concerto in A Major, which could display the written score or perhaps even invoke a recording of
the concerto. Clicking on the name Mozart might cause various illustrations of Mozart to appear
on the screen. The icons that you select to view associated objects are called Hypertext links or
buttons.
Hypertext systems are particularly useful for organizing and browsing through large databases
that consist of disparate types of information. There are several Hypertext systems available for
Apple Macintosh computers and PCs that enable you to develop your own databases. Such
systems are often called authoring systems. HyperCard software from Apple Computer is the
most famous.
Hypertext is the presentation of information as linked network of nodes which readers are free
to navigate in a non-linear fashion. It allows for multiple authors, a blurring of the author and
reader functions, extended works with diffuse boundaries, and multiple reading paths.
The term “hypertext” was defined as “non-sequential writing”.
Many subsequent writers have taken hypertext to be a distinctly electronic technology – one
which must involve a computer.
Did u know? Janet Fiderio, in her overview “A Grand Vision,” writes:
“Hypertext, at its most basic level, is a DBMS that lets you connect screens of information using
associative links. At its most sophisticated level, hypertext is a software environment for collaborative
work, communication, and knowledge acquisition. Hypertext products mimic the brain’s ability to
store and retrieve information by referential links for quick and intuitive access.”
Self Assessment
State whether the following statements are true or false:
10. Hypertext systems are particularly useful for organizing and browsing through large
databases.
11. The term “hypertext” was defined as sequential writing.
12. HyperCard software from Apple Computer is the most famous.
11.5 Memory Organization System
In the following aspects, you can see the Memory Organization System:
11.5.1 HAM, a Model of Memory
Storage in human memory is one of three core process of memory, along with recall and
encoding. It refers to the retention of information, which has been achieved through the encoding
process, in the brain for a prolonged period of time until it is accessed through recall. Modern
memory psychology differentiates the two distinct type of memory storage: short-term memory
and long-term memory. In addition, different memory models have suggested variations of
existing short-term and long-term memory to account for different ways of storing memory.
Varieties of different memory models have been proposed to account for different types of
recall processes, including cued recall, free recall, and serial recall. In order to explain the recall
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