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NoteCards was a hypertext-based
NoteCards was a hypertext-based personal knowledge base
A personal knowledge base (PKB) is an electronic tool used to express, capture, and later retrieve the personal knowledge of an individual. It differs from a traditional database in that it contains subjective material particular to the owner, th ...
system developed at Xerox PARC
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, the company was originally a division of Xero ...
by Randall Trigg, Frank Halasz and Thomas Moran in 1984. NoteCards was developed after Trigg's pioneering 1983 Ph.D.
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thesis on hypertext while at the University of Maryland College Park
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NoteCards was built on the model four basic kinds of objects: notecards, links, browser card, and a filebox. Each window is an analog of a cue card; window sizes may vary, but contents cannot scroll. Local and global maps are available through browsers. There are over 40 different nodes which support various media.
NoteCards was implemented in LISP on D-machine workstations from Xerox
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which used large, high-resolution Computer display, displays. The NoteCards interface is event-driven. One interesting feature of NoteCards is that authors may use LISP commands to customize or create entirely new node types. The powerful programming language allows almost complete customization of the entire NoteCards work environment.
Availability
NoteCards was available commercially from the Common Lisp software vendor Venue, compiled for Solaris (operating system), Solaris 2.5 and 7 (untested on later versions) and Linux x86 with the X Window System.References
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