Collaborative hypertext and the MUCH system

1998

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.

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One important facet of current hypertext research involves using knowledge-based techniques to develop and maintain document structures. A semantic net is one such technique. However, most semantic-net-based hypertext systems leave the linking consistency of the net to individual users. Users without guidance may accidentally introduce structural and relational inconsistencies in the semantic nets. The relational inconsistency hinders the creation of domain information models. The structural inconsistency leads to unstable documents, especially when a document is composed by computation with traversal algorithms. This work tackles the above problems by integrating logical structure and domain semantics into a semantic net. A semantic-net-based structured-hypertext model has been formalized. The model preserves structural and relational consistency after changes to the semantic net. The hypertext system (RICH) based on this model has been implemented and tested. The RICH system can define and enforce a set of rules to maintain the integrity of the semantic net and provide particular support for creating multihierarchies with the reuse of existing contents and structures. Users have found such flexible but enforceable semantics to be helpful.

Section: Problem Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Structured hypertext with domain semantics

Wang¹,

1998

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.

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“…The SGML-MUCH (S-M) system was originally developed as a subsystem of a collaborative authoring hypermedia system called Many Using and Creating Hypermedia (MUCH) [20] and provides a mechanism for MUCH to exchange text and hypertext with other systems [21] (see Figure 6). …”

Section: Sgml-much Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hypertext Interchange Using Ica

Journal of Documentation

Bird

Zheng

1995

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“…With reference to the Dexter Model, and the support of the coordination, collaboration and codecision functions within the model; Hypertext and similarly Hypermedia can in a very important way, support these activities. For instance, straightforward usage of a Hypermedia system can certainly support annotations, and indeed this paper was written using a collaborative hypertext system, called MUCH (Rada et al, 1991). It has been the result of collaborative communications by co-authors adding comment nodes to the text and the principal author adding the salient points of these comments into the structure of the paper.…”

Section: The Comltlunicatiun Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a consolidated model for a collaborative courseware authoring system

Dobson

Computer Assisted Learning

Chen

et al. 1993

In an effort to reduce the expensive resource requirements in courseware production and to allow effective management of, and communication and collaboration between authors, a model is needed to harmonize the diverse theoretical backgrounds such a process requires. To this end we look at five abstract models which where chosen for their apparent appropriateness within the general area of collaborative authoring and reuse of multimedia courseware. These models consist of a functional model of hypertext, an infrastructure model for an open collaborative authoring system, two object‐oriented communication models, and a courseware production model. We attempt a consolidation of these models and ultimately make several conclusions, which are exposed during a conceptual harmonisation. The principal conclusion is that a hypermedia logical model is not by itself adequate to support collaboration and reuse. Our modeling conclusions have driven the design of a system which will be implemented and tested.