linkeken
Linkeken is a neologism used in information architecture and digital humanities to describe a systematic approach to hyperlinking that emphasizes bidirectionality and verifiability. In a linkeken model, links between digital objects such as documents, datasets, or entities are not one-way pointers but part of a bi-directional network where the creation of a link automatically registers a reciprocal reference, enabling robust navigation, provenance tracking, and change propagation.
The term appears to combine the word link with the suffix ken, drawing on Germanic language patterns.
From a technical standpoint, a linkeken-enabled system maintains link tables or graph databases that store both
Adoption and criticism: there is no formal standard for linkeken, and its use remains largely within research
See also: hypertext, bidirectional links, knowledge graph, provenance.