Microcosm TNG: a framework for distributed open hypermedia

Author

Goose, Stuart ; Hall, Wendy ; Reich, Siegfried

Author_Institution

Siemens Corp. Res. Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA

Volume

7

Issue

3

fYear

2000

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

60

Abstract

Increased amounts of information and users´ rising demands for advanced link services pose strong challenges to distributed hypermedia systems. Novel presentation facilities, nontextual digital media, personalization of content and structures, and many more techniques often require complex processing and thus imply new interaction styles. Microcosm TNG (The Next Generation), which is a framework for distributed open hypermedia, offers new mechanisms for desktop and Internet integration. It also promotes a modular approach to authoring hypermedia resources

Keywords

Internet; authoring systems; distributed processing; hypermedia; interactive systems; open systems; Internet integration; Microcosm TNG; advanced hyperlink services; complex processing; content personalization; desktop integration; distributed open hypermedia framework; hypermedia resources; interaction styles; modular authoring approach; nontextual digital media; presentation facilities; structure personalization; Collaborative work; Content based retrieval; Data models; Internet; Joining processes; Multimedia systems; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; Resource description framework; XML;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/93.879768

Filename

879768