[Sighci-l] Final reminder cfp: NRHM'02 on Hypermedia and the World Wide Web

[Douglas Tudhope]

                   Call for Submissions

        New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 2002


NRHM is a refereed annual review journal covering research on practical
and theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and
related technologies. Issues (normally 10-12 papers) review and explore
one or two topical themes from diverse perspectives.

The main theme for NRHM 2002 is hypermedia and the World Wide Web,
encompassing all aspects of the use, creation and management of hypermedia
links and structures in documents of all sorts available via the Web.
In this issue we are continuing the open topic sub-theme introduced last
year for high quality papers meeting NRHM's scope in general (see website).
We aim to include a small number of high quality original papers that report 
on a substantial body of research or undertake a significant review of a topic.

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers electronically to the
Guest Editors at the e-mail addresses below. There is no explicit restriction 
on length but authors who wish to submit a long article should contact the 
Guest Editors prior to submission.

Initial submissions for reviewing can be sent in PDF, Postscript, RTF or HTML 
following any conventional readable document format.
Please note that author details should only appear on the separate cover
page and materials which identify the authors or their affiliations 
should not be given in the submitted paper itself prior to review.

Submission deadline:     24th June 2002
Acceptance notification: 24th August 2002
Final manuscripts due:   24th September 2002


Hypermedia as a field of study is rapidly gaining ground in the World Wide
Web research area. The Hypermedia track in the International World Wide Web 
conferences series grows every year and the ACM Hypertext conference series 
has also seen growth in the number of Web-related submissions.

There are many issues inherent in the application of hypermedia technologies
within the Web. Creating large numbers of links, maintaining existing links
to avoid Error 404, adapting hypertext links according to the user's needs,
offering additional hypertext links as "plug-in" functions versus building
hypertext into markup languages, are all technical challenges that have not
been solved yet.

There is also the benefit of being able to use existing hypertext links to
determine characteristics of Web document collections, to identify hubs and
authorities, finding clusters of densely-linked documents, and identifying
documents with similar content. In this case, hypertext is a tool rather than
and end in itself, and papers on such technologies are equally encouraged.

The following list of suggested topics illustrates the scope of the issue
but is not intended to be exhaustive:

- challenges in implementing best hypermedia practice in the Web
- using existing hypertext technologies in Web documents
- adapting hypertext to each Web user's needs
- link integrity and Error 404
- additional hypertext outside the Web's own features
- XLink
- using hypertext links and structures for detecting document characteristics
- automatic link creation and maintenance
- links on non-text data

Please contact the Guest Editors if you have any questions on the scope of the
call or require further information.

Guest editors: 
Helen Ashman - hla at cs.nott.ac.uk
Steve DeRose - sderose at speakeasy.net



NRHM Editor Douglas Tudhope  - dstudhope at glam.ac.uk
Associate Editor Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif at glam.ac.uk

For additional information on NRHM, see http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/

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