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Linear v.s. Nonlinear

A crucial idea of AcademiXML is to deconstruct the concept of a ‘book’, where a theory is generally supported with a linear structure of introduction, chapters and a single conclusion, into a ‘collection’ of knowledge objects, making it more seamless with the way people view and aggregate information on web. The structure of text becomes rather dominating in Wiki-based documents because readers cannot rearrange the pages and categories they view on the fly. If Wikis are powerful for collaboratively editing a structured body of text, the machine-readable, XML format of AcademiXML makes it powerful for creating smaller objects of texts which can be tagged, rearranged and associated with ease, allowing content to be viewed nonlinearly.
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#collection [id:18, creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-24T16.37.10.0Z", tag:"AcademiXML, wiki"]

#hiromi [creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-24T16.37.10.0Z", tag:"AcademiXML, wiki"]

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