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As regards information requirements, quantitative measuring units such as number of pages, words etc. are usually used in the area of knowledge work. You will often hear that an article is supposed to have a certain amount of pages. Obviously, these measuring units poorly reflect the acutal, informative value of an article.
In the area of scientific publications, where information is usually dealt with in a highly responsible way, the scientific quality of an article is gathered from the number of references, showing to which extent the author has considered existing concepts in his work. After having proved itself in the area of scientific publications, this indicator could find its way into knowledge work.
It is imaginable that the quality of a text in the Internet will be increasingly measured according to the extent of contextualization. In other words: In a hypertext environment written inputs can be regarded as being of high quality if they show few redundancies, with respect to the common information pool, and high contextualization (referencing).
In order to put conepts into context, an information pool including existing concepts in form of knowledge modules suited for hypertext is needed. The more easily existing concepts can be put into context the more efficient the completion of tasks by a knowledge worker. The more often a module is put into context the higher its value.
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