Conceptual Analysis of Hypertext
  In this chapter tools and techniques from the mathematical theory of formal
concept analysis are applied to hypertext systems in general, and the World
Wide Web in particular. Various processes for the conceptual structuring of
hypertext are discussed: summarization, conceptual scaling, and the creation of
conceptual links. Well-known interchange formats for summarizing networked
information resources as resource meta-information are reviewed, and two new
interchange formats originating from formal concept analysis are advocated.
Also reviewed is conceptual scaling, which provides a principled approach to
the faceted analysis techniques in library science classification. The
important notion of conceptual linkage is introduced as a generalization of a
hyperlink. The automatic hyperization of the content of legacy data is
described, and the composite conceptual structuring with hypertext linkage is
defined. For the conceptual empowerment of the Web user, a new technique called
conceptual browsing is advocated. Conceptual browsing, which browses over
conceptual links, is dual mode (extensional versus intensional) and dual scope
(global versus local).
