How'd you think to open it in libreoffice? I used file on it, and all it said was 'data'. Sure enough as soon as I changed it to .odt it opened up fine.
I just figured it was worth a try. I didn't have to change the suffix, just selecting LibreOffice in my browser's "Open With" dialog seems to have worked fine.
"Keywords are a common method of accessing data for which one does not have the exact coordinates. The usual problem with keywords, however, is that two people never chose the same keywords. The keywords then become useful only to people who already know the application well."
Interesting that some problems have been known for so long, with no solution in sight.
The whole article is super interesting in the context of everything the author did not yet know
One solution for this comes from the field of librarianship -- the use of standard ontologies for classifying information. The two most widely used are the Dewey Decimal system (proprietary) and the Library of Congress Catalog Classification System (nonproprietary). I've seen arguments that Dewey is more logically consistent, but the LCCCS's open nature lends it a strong advantage.
Even such ontologies aren't entirely stable -- they change over time, and as with other bits of knowledge, reflect cultural fads and fashions. But I've been recommending to several systems (Pocket, Ello, blogging platforms) that a classification / tagging system based on these might actually be a fairly reasonable start, if only in that there's a very large, mostly-well-considered basis to start from.
How did I not know about this? I have read everything Mr. Adams has published (I believe). Played a couple of his games. Listened to his radio output. Watched _that_ movie. But I did not know about this.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
I'm actually getting a bit emotional here. Bonus is that I'm super interested in the evolution of text from codex to semantic web (and beyond?) so both the purveyor of the content and the content itself interest me. That Ted Nelson, I tells ya.
Totally unrelated. One thing that the web could have had was _typed_ links. A number of people have made this observation but not many. The idea is built into the assumptions that gave birth to hypertext but the idea was never implemented. See here, for instance: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22907/abstrac...
Interestingly, I can open this just fine in LibreOffice 5. The alignment is slightly off, but the graphics appear just fine.