Hypertext Computer Applications for Picture Collections: Representing the Fabric of the Archive

An account of the ""contest between visual resources,
cataloguing and basic computer tools'' and the problem of
""matching words to pictures, a central problem for
cataloguing.'' A critical discussion of ""hypertext'' or
""hypermedia'' programs in relation to picture collections.
Citing such authors as Nelson Goodman, Barthes, Canetti and
Allan Sekula, and problematising projects like Intermedia, Ted
Nelson's XANADU, and Eric Drexler's project at the Forethought
Institute, the author urges the timely application of hypertext
to visual resources. ""Such applications'', the author
concludes, ""will eventually bring into sharper relief the
textuality of archives''.
Carpenter Center, Harvard Univ.


Citaten:
Goodman, N.: Languages of Art (1976)
Barthes, R.: S/Z (1974)
Canetti, E.: Crowds and Power (1973)
Nye, D.E.: Image Worlds (1985)
Sekula, A.: The Body and the Archive (October 39, 1986)