| 摘要 |
The present invention provides a method and system for facilitating research of electronic information archived on a distributed information network such as the Internet and WWW. In order to facilitate research functionality, the present invention provides a method and system for structuring, retrieving and displaying computer based information content. A novel data structure for representing cognitive information content is defined, referred to herein as a cognitive information object. A cognitive information object serves as a modular building block for representing a user defined cognitive concept. Each cognitive information object may be linked to one or more information file pointers that respectively point to information files that may be distributed throughout a computer network. Information files may comprise any number of multimedia formats such as HTML files, graphics files, sound files, text files, etc. Cognitive information objects may be linked together in an arbitrary fashion to generate a metastructure or cognitive information matrix to represent information structures (i.e., a structured knowledge base). The information matrix defines any number of paths for traversing the information objects to facilitate research of the knowledge base. A menu-driven GUI is provided that facilitates navigation through the knowledge base by graphically displaying identifiers for cognitive information objects and/or file pointers according to predetermined display attributes.
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