An open framework for integrating widely distributed hypermedia resources

Author

Goose, Stuart ; Dale, Jonathan ; Hill, Gary ; De Roure, Dave ; Hall, Wendy

Author_Institution

Multimedia Res. Lab., Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

1996

fDate

17-23 Jun 1996

Firstpage

364

Lastpage

371

Abstract

The success of the WWW has served as an illustration of how hypermedia can enhance access to large repositories of distributed information. However, current distributed hypermedia systems offer limited hypermedia functionality which cannot easily be augmented or simply applied to existing applications and data formats. This paper describes a model and prototype, based on the Microcosm system, of a reflexive and extensible distributed hypermedia framework for managing hypermedia application development, sharing and re-use

Keywords

Internet; distributed processing; hypermedia; multimedia computing; open systems; software development management; very large databases; visual databases; Internet; Microcosm system; WWW; World Wide Web; application development; data formats; distributed hypermedia resources; hypermedia functionality; hypermedia reuse; hypermedia sharing; large data repositories; open framework; reflexive extensible hypermedia; Collaboration; Control systems; HTML; Information resources; Joining processes; Laboratories; Navigation; Prototypes; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7438-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1996.534999

Filename

534999