Advanced Tutorial in Hypermedia Research

Norman Meyrowitz , IRIS

Overview

I have a paper copy of the transparencies to this tutorial.

• An overview of terminology, aimed at getting perople to use the same terms. His were basically the same as ours .
• Multi-User Hypermedia
• Inter-Network Hypermedia
• Information Retrieval and Hypermedia
• HyperText and text Markup
• Links to and from temporal media
• The structural model vs. the programming model.

Architecture

The conclusion of this talk was the presentation of a software architecture for the next generation of hypertext systems. This differed in some ways from the WorldWideWeb architecture, and was therefore interesting. The architecure was designed to handle Inter-network hypermedia ("an up-and-coming area of research"). The model was that:-

• The operating system should include link services which all applications will be encouraged to use, so that inter-application jumps will be possible.
• The link information will be stored separately from the documents in a database in each filesystem.
• Details of each link will be stored by both the source and destination link servers.
• There will be a common file system which will allow remote applications to access the document when they follow a link.
• There will be common document formats, so that common access to files is all that is needed for document interchange.