HyperScope

Douglas Engelbart concept

Proxy Server to provide Augment-like interface to legacy (proprietary format, e.g. MsOffice) files - the next step toward the Open Hyperdocument System?

http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/hyperscope.html

RemoteWikiURL:http://blueoxen.net/c/hyperscope/wiki.pl?

Revived in 2006 - 2006-09-05-HyperscopeReleased

• http://hyperscope.org/

• all JavaScript (Dojo Toolkit)

• uses OPML

• you run transformers against your non-HTML source/binary documents to convert them

  • the MsWord transformer is written in C Sharp, which I assume means you need the whole DotNet runtime on your machine.

This seems to be a view-only system! How are its users then interacting? I could see having a mainly-single-author document, and gathering email-based comments, taking advantage of the Purple Numbers, etc. But I really try not to write long/static documents anymore, in a Start Up change is constant/random, so freezing a document is pointless. I'd rather use Email Discussion Beside Wiki.

As of Jan31'2007

• their blog hasn't been updated since Nov7

• there have been no wiki changes in 90days

• 1 mailing list was last-updated Dec18, the others haven't been posted to since late October