Embedding hypermedia into information systems

This paper discusses the integration of hypermedia as a value-added support functionality into computer-based information systems. These include a large base of scientific and business applications, which people use primarily for their underlying analytic functionality. Hypermedia features supplement these applications, providing access to the application´s primary activities, and support for the understanding of information and communication between team members. This paper presents a topography for the emerging hypermedia functionality research in general. It also illustrates one branch of this research with an example: an information system level functionality within a software system with the emphasis on hand-made hyperlinks and annotations