TY - CHAP

T1 - Note on the complexities of simple things such as a timeline.

T2 - On the notions text, e-text, hypertext, and origins of machine translation.

AU - Finnemann, Niels Ole

PY - 2021/12/9

Y1 - 2021/12/9

N2 - The composition of a timeline depends on purpose, perspective, and scale – and of the very understanding of the word, the phenomenon referred to, and whether the focus is the idea or concept, an instance of an idea or a phenomenon, a process, or an event and so forth. The main function of timelines is to provide an overview over a long history, it is a mnemotechnic device or a particular kind of Knowledge Organization System (KOS). The entries in the timeline should be brief and indisputable. Therefore, timelines often identify the first occurrences’ rather than the most widespread or most qualified instances leaving the fuller and more complex, and possibly disputable story out. But even first occurrences are often difficult to establish. The first occurrence is most often only the first finding of an instance. Older instances may be found and competing definitions develop either within a field or in different fields. This is further complicated since the phenomena, their names, and their meanings may change over time. Former meanings may become redundant, or they must accommodate and coexist with new meanings. The time and place of the composition of the timeline are to be considered in interpreting the things listed. The following note will discuss these issues as they occur in the development of the notions of text, e-text, hypertext, and of machine translation.

AB - The composition of a timeline depends on purpose, perspective, and scale – and of the very understanding of the word, the phenomenon referred to, and whether the focus is the idea or concept, an instance of an idea or a phenomenon, a process, or an event and so forth. The main function of timelines is to provide an overview over a long history, it is a mnemotechnic device or a particular kind of Knowledge Organization System (KOS). The entries in the timeline should be brief and indisputable. Therefore, timelines often identify the first occurrences’ rather than the most widespread or most qualified instances leaving the fuller and more complex, and possibly disputable story out. But even first occurrences are often difficult to establish. The first occurrence is most often only the first finding of an instance. Older instances may be found and competing definitions develop either within a field or in different fields. This is further complicated since the phenomena, their names, and their meanings may change over time. Former meanings may become redundant, or they must accommodate and coexist with new meanings. The time and place of the composition of the timeline are to be considered in interpreting the things listed. The following note will discuss these issues as they occur in the development of the notions of text, e-text, hypertext, and of machine translation.

KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet

KW - History of text

KW - History of Hypertext

KW - early history of machine translation

KW - Timeline issues

KW - Knowledge Organiszation

KW - Timeline composition

KW - Timeline for text, e-text and hypertext

KW - Earluy history of Machine trannslation

UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354312843_2021_Note_on_the_Complexity_of_Simple_Things_such_as_a_History_of_Text_Timeline_On_the_notions_of_text_e-etext_hypertext_and_of_the_origines_of_Machine_Translation_Published_in_Hegland_ed_The_Future_o

UR - https://philpapers.org/rec/FINNOT-4

M3 - Bidrag til bog/antologi

SN - 9798780922513

VL - Vol 2

SP - 149

EP - 156

BT - The Future of Text

A2 - Hegland, Frode

PB - Liquid Text

CY - Wimbledon

ER -