Topo – A Tool for Visualizing Information Depth

Topo is a tool for generating topographic maps of hypertextual links in order to know more information hidden beneath the text. It provides a method of generating and visualizing the depth of information, allowing a user to navigate through pages in an article, or through linked pages on the web. It uses a novel algorithm to generate the links, making them pop-up instead of underlined or otherwise obvious. It was built for articles in the encyclopedia category of Wikipedia, but it is designed to be more robust for any article on the web that will benefit from the depth. The result is an image that resembles a page from a book that has a relief map to convey the importance of the words on the page.