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LIT-762: gIBIS: a hypertext tool for exploratory policy discussion

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StatusUnfetched — searched 2026-10-14 for a lawful full text; one exists but this client could not fetch it, so it is not read and no NOTE is filed. OpenAlex and Unpaywall list a bronze copy in the ACM Digital Library (dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/58566.59297); it returned a Cloudflare 403 challenge to curl and to WebFetch, so the failure is on access, not availability. No author-posted copy was found on the web or on Conklin's CogNexus site; the fatcat API reset the connection. A browser fetch of the ACM copy is the cheapest way to read it. It stays Unfetched until a copy is supplied.
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Tagsdesign-rationale
ExtendsLIT-758 — Issues as Elements of Information Systems
Extended byLIT-755 — A Process-Oriented Approach to Design Rationale

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Jeff Conklin and Michael L. Begeman (1988), ACM Transactions on Information Systems 6(4):303–331 — DOI-10.1145/58566.59297

Key takeaways

Registered, not read. From the abstract only: gIBIS is a hypertext system built to capture early design deliberations by the IBIS method of LIT-758, for large and complex design problems. It uses colour and a relational database server so that team members across a local network can build and browse typed IBIS networks together. The authors report that early experiments suggest the IBIS method is still incomplete, but that tool and method match well.

Standing in the record

Filed on 2026-10-06 at the owner’s request, with the rest of the design-rationale batch under ADR-030. See the curation entry of that day for why the batch is here.

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