Hypermedia on the Web

Abstract

Abstract:Researchers in the hypermedia field often lament that the World Wide Web does not support many of hypermedia's rich structuring, navigation and annotation features. What would it take for everyday Web applications to be fully hypermedia compliant, now that the basic hypermedia building blocks exist on the Web? The following four capabilities are the most critical for integrating hypermedia support in the Web environment: edit-capable browsers, storing document content and link anchors separately, external linkbases, and displaying link spans, node and link attributes. Individual developers cannot decide autonomously on how to resolve many of the outstanding issues. Developers need agreed-upon conventions and tools built upon today's Web standards to fully incorporate hypermedia functionality into everyday applications.

Towards Wikis as semantic hypermedia

“…As a prominent example links on the Web are un-typed and unidirectional. Recently, various systems use the Web as a technical starting point for building more richer and usable hypermedia systems [6,29].…”

“…Table 1 depicts a compilation of the most important features of modern hypermedia systems, which are expected to contribute to the realization of the aforementioned scenario. Their relevance to the functional architecture introduced in the previous section is grounded in hypermedia/hypertext literature [6,7,29] and briefly outlined in the next subsections. Complementarily to these "classical" hypermedia features we mention the need for semantic technologies to enhance automatic link computation, advanced information retrieval and organization as well as content quality assurance facilities (cf.…”

“…Separating information sources from the links interconnecting them enables the realization of a wide range of hypermedia features related to personalization and other context-and structure-based services: different link sets over the same content for different target user groups or tasks, private and personalized links, and finally bidirectional links [29].…”

In-Context Annotations for Refinding and Sharing

“…However, there are still a number of features missing that are essential for supporting information classification, retrieval, processing and understanding. Most of these issues have been reported already during the early inception of the Web, mainly from the hypertext community [1] [2]. In particular, frequently mentioned are: the lack of typed or annotated links; the absence of hypertrails; limited browser history mechanisms; and the lack of support for annotations.…”

ANNOTATIONS AND HYPERTRAILS WITH SPREADCRUMBS - An Easy Way to Annotate, Refind and Share

“…Most of these issues have been reported already during the early inception of the Web, mainly from the hypertext community (Halasz 1991) (Vitali 1999). In particular, frequently mentioned are: the lack of typed or annotated links; the absence of hypertrails; limited browser history mechanisms; and the lack of support for annotations.…”