Sun Microsystems Laboratories

I have been asked about the paper "What's in a Link": how it came to be, what was happening in the field at the time, and how the ideas have evolved since then. This talk will describe my perspective on some of the things that I saw happening around me that led me to write the paper, some of the background thoughts that led to the ideas presented there, and how some of those ideas have evolved since then. In this abstract, I will list some of the threads that I will discuss and provide some of the relevant references. "What's in a Link " (Woods, 1975), advocated a standard of rigor for the representational conventions used in semantic networks an