HyperTIES, 1984-1992 and undated

Series III consists of research related to "HyperTIES," an early hypertext system developed at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) at the University of Maryland. Included is correspondence; software; documentation relating to research grants; and lectures and workshops for training on HyperTIES.

Ben Shneiderman invented the idea of having the text itself be the link marker, a concept that came to be called embedded menus or illuminated links. Earlier systems used typed-in codes, numbered menus, or link icons. Embedded menus were first implemented by Dan Ostroff in 1983 and then applied and tested by Larry Koved (Koved and Shneiderman, 1986). In 1984-1985 the work was supported by a contract from the U. S. Department of Interior in connection with the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Education Center. Originally called The Interactive Encyclopedia Systems (TIES), HCIL changed the name to HyperTIES in 1986 due to trademark conflicts as they moved toward commercial licensing with Cognetics Corporation. Some of the features of HyperTIES included an easy-to-use markup language, similar to HTML; fast full-text and keyword search, bookmarks, and a history list; and a completely graphical interface. HyperTIES was used in the widely circulated ACM-published disk Hypertext on Hypertext which contained the full text of the eight papers in the July 1988 Communications of the ACM.

The arrangement is chronological.