This year the meeting took place at the HT98 conference. One significant activity during the last year was the nomination and selection of Douglas Engelbart for the ACM Turing award. Planning has begun for Hypertext 2000 and Digital Libraries 2000.
Efforts are underway to make the newsletter more engaging.
To do these types of things requires more members get involved. The next WWW confer- ence is in Toronto in May 1999. May. There was a discussion of the possibility to collocate Hypertext 2000 with WWW 2000. Bene fits to doing so include the possibility of having input into WWW discussions and standards and getting greater visibility for the hypertext research community. Difficulties with collocation include the potential that the Hypertext conference would seem more like a workshop in the context of this huge event.