Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems
Communications of the ACM
Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Scripted documents: a hypermedia path mechanism
HYPERTEXT '89 Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext
Guided tours and on-line presentations: how authors make existing hypertext intelligible for readers
HYPERTEXT '89 Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext
Writing space: the computer, hypertext, and the history of writing
Writing space: the computer, hypertext, and the history of writing
Structural and cognitive problems in providing version control for hypertext
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
CoVer: a contextual version server for hypertext applications
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
Information retrieval from hypertext using dynamically planned guided tours
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
Contours of constructive hypertexts
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
Toward a rhetoric of informating texts
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
Dynamic hypertext and knowledge agent systems for multimedia information networks
HYPERTEXT '93 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Hypertext
Hypertext by link-resolving components
HYPERTEXT '93 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Hypertext
Hypertext and the author/reader dialogue
HYPERTEXT '93 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Hypertext
Design issues for a Dexter-based hypermedia system
Communications of the ACM
Going digital: a look at assumptions underlying digital libraries
Communications of the ACM
I read the news today, oh boy: reading and attention in digital libraries
DL '97 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries
Heroic measures: reflections on the possibility and purpose of digital preservation
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Making metadata: a study of metadata creation for a mixed physical-digital collection
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Structured hypertext with domain semantics
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Perception of content, structure, and presentation changes in Web-based hypertext
Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Six roles of documents in professionals' work
ECSCW'99 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The re:search engine: simultaneous support for finding and re-finding
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
How people recall, recognize, and reuse search results
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
From data representation to data model: Meta-semantic issues in the evolution of SGML
Computer Standards & Interfaces
On the issues of building information warehouses
Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM Bangalore Conference
A research agenda for data curation cyberinfrastructure
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
Managing fixity and fluidity in data repositories
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Facets of access: a typology of information dissemination systems
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
On the institutional archiving of social media
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
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One of the crucial properties of documents through the ages has been their fixity. The ability to mark surfaces in relatively stable ways has made it possible for people distributed across space and time to see the same images and thereby to have access to the same meanings or communicative intent. Today, however, with the increasing use of digital technologies, it is often asserted that we are moving from the fixed world of paper documents to the fluid world of digital documents. In this paper I challenge this assertion, arguing instead that all documents, regardless of medium, are fixed and fluid. Thus, although paper documents do fix aspects of communication, they do (and must) also change; and although digital documents are easily changeable, they must also be capable of remaining fixed. I make use of this analysis in two ways: first, to examine the fixity and fluidity of hypertext; and second, to critique Bolter's argument in Writing Space concerning the movement from “fixed to fluid.”