https://github.com/nichtich/hcl

hypermedia content locator
https://github.com/nichtich/hcl

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hypermedia content locator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nichtich/hcl
• Owner: nichtich
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2019-11-12T20:36:23.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-11-13T19:30:37.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-30T16:25:00.687Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Perl
• Size: 4.88 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Hypermedia Content Locator

The command line tool `hcl`, included in this repository, helps to retrieve

**document segments** via **content locators** to support hypermedia

transclusion.

## Motivation

In order to implement **Xanalogical Hypertext** as proposed by Ted Nelson since

the 1960s it requires (Voß 2019a,b):

* **documents** retrievable via **document identifiers**

* **content locators** to select segments from documents

* **edit lists** to assemble documents from document segments  

As [described before](https://jakobib.github.io/hypertext2019/#content-locators)

several standards and technologies exist to express content locators, for instance

[URI Fragment Identifiers], [Web Annotation Selectors], and [IIIF Image API].

This repository collects content locator implementations to reference document

segments. The primary motivation is to **avoid copy & paste**.

[URI Fragment Identifiers]: http://www.w3.org/TR/fragid-best-practices/

[Web Annotation Selectors]: https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/#selectors

[IIIF Image API]: https://iiif.io/api/image/

## Requirements and installation

The tool is written in Perl 5.14 without non-core dependencies, so it should

run on any Unix-like operating system. Just copy the file [hcl](hcl) to your

PATH and make it executable.

## References

* Voß (2019a): _[Infrastructure-Agnostic Hypertext](https://jakobib.github.io/hypertext2019/)_ 

* Voß (2019b): _[We were promised Xanadu! An Infrastructure-Agnostic Model of Hypertext](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3339295)_. 

## License

Hypertext must be available to anyone so feel free to use as you like!

References are welcome nevertheless.