Open Cross-Document Linking and Browsing Based on a Visual Plug-in Architecture

Abstract

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Web Augmentation as a Promising Technology for End User Development

“…results cannot be reused and/or shared with other users. Tayeh et al [68] is a case in point. These authors provide a tool for the linking and the integration of arbitrary documents and multimedia content dynamically.…”

A Dynamically Extensible Open Cross-Document Link Service

“…Thereby, in most document formats the offered link models are far away from the "non-sequential writing" definition of hypertext [14] where at any given time pointers can be added to documents to direct a reader to a different section, paragraph or another (part of a) document. In order to overcome the shortcomings of existing document link models, in some of our earlier work we have presented an open cross-document link service [19]. The link service offers a plug-in architecture for integrating different document formats.…”

“…2. Components depicted with solid lines have been presented in earlier work [19], while some of the dashed gateways, plug-in tracking, online repository and communication components are playing a central role for the dynamic link service extensibility described in this paper. In our link service, the gateway and communication components play an important role for integrating third-party applications.…”

“…Most existing document formats only provide a simple embedded unidirectional link model for defining associations between documents [16,19]. While many document formats support the linking to third-party documents, it is normally not possible to address and link to parts of these documents.…”

“…Furthermore, OOXML [2] hyperlinks enable the addressing of parts of other OOXML documents. Nevertheless, as argued by Tayeh and Signer [19], the support of cross-document linking for arbitrary document formats is a challenging task which requires concrete information about each document format to be linked. Furthermore, it asks for a revision of a given document format specification in order to support a new document type.…”