HYPERTEXT 2009, will be held at Torino, Italy between June 29th and July 1st next year. Perhaps, the evolution of HYPERTEXT conference reflects the increasing scope and influence of the Web over the past decade.

The Web, the Semantic Web, the Web 2.0, and Social Networks are all manifestations of the success of the link. The Hypertext Conference provides the forum for all research concerning links: their semantics, their presentation, the applications they have been put to, the knowledge that can be derived from their analysis, and their effect on society.

Main themes in HYPERTEXT 1996 included:

• Spatial Hypertexts
• Autonomous Hypertext Systems and Link Discovery
• Hypertext Rhetoric and Criticism
• Models of Hypermedia Design and Evaluation
• Open Hypermedia
• Navigation in the World-Wide Web
• Systems and Infrastructure
• Extending the World-Wide Web

With many of the above questions, now answered, researchers are moving towards the more "social aspects". HYPERTEXT 2008 themes included:

• Information linking: new models and techniques for interacting with information, automating the "trailblazer"
• Social linking: link inference, analysis and modeling, similarity and retrieval, applications
• Hypertext, culture, and communication
• Applications of hypertext

Submission deadline is February 2009. If you are interested in this area, please consider participating.

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