Gopher notes

gopher://gopherspace.de/0/menu/WIKI/GopherCon/94/3Dgopherspace.txt:

• "the grouping problem" -- a way to group items;
• "the browsing problem" -- a way to get a glimpse of the content an item;
• "leveraging social intelligence" -- user comments, rankings, etc.;
• "sense of place" -- putting a item into a context, customization of appearance;
• "support human-human interaction";
• "need of meta-information" -- external to the item, inferred or contributed;

gopher://gopherspace.de/0/menu/WIKI/GopherCon/95/Hyper-G.txt:

• "each document has an additional object description where all important attributes are stored";
• "expiry dates are important for quality assurance";
• links between objects are bidirectional;
• links (extraction) is independent of the document type;
• "each user has a personal home-collection where he stores links or documents";
• "access to documents is controlled by read, write, unlink permissions";
• "structuring of documents is done in collections";
• "collections can not only hold documents but also references to documents";
• "clusters are several documents grouped together for logical reasons";
• replication to the closest server;