Comments on: QOTD: timbl is a document

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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:47:04 +0000

[...] following is a verbatim post on Richard Cyganiak’s blog recently. I normally hate re-blogging other people’s content - however, this one is so funny, [...]

By: Giovanni Tummarello

Giovanni Tummarello — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:55:12 +0000

Shouldn’t a document at least not have its own will? :-) Giovanni

By: Simon Spero

Simon Spero — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:13:21 +0000

Umm… this borad notion of what can be called a document is quite a bit older than the web; Paul Otlet is considered by many to be the founding father of hypertext.

See: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/otlet.html for a lot of useful links (English and French)) ;