Rethinking Hypermedia The Microcosm Approach

Rethinking Hypermedia The Microcosm Approach / by Wendy Hall, Hugh Davis, Gerard Hutchings.

Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essentially the story of the Microcosm hypermedia research and development project that started in the late 1980's and from which has emerged a philosophy that re-examines the whole concept of hypermedia and its role in the evolution of multimedi...

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Main Authors: Hall, Wendy (Author), Davis, Hugh (Author), Hutchings, Gerard (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1996.
Edition:1st ed. 1996.
Series:Electronic Publishing Series, 4
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Natural language processing (Computer science).
Information storage and retrieval.
Multimedia information systems.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Motivations
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 How We Started
  • 1.3 Why Microcosm?
  • 1.4 The Vision
  • A Brief History of Hypermedia
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The Original Vision
  • 2.3 Hypermedia for Personal Computers
  • 2.4 Standards for Hypertext Systems and Information Exchange
  • 2.5 Hypertext on the Internet
  • 2.6 Open Hypermedia Systems and Link Services
  • 2.7 Conclusions
  • Implementing Open Hypermedia: Microcosm
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Overview
  • 3.3 The Link Service Model
  • 3.4 Interacting with the Information: Viewers
  • 3.5 Processing the Information: Filters
  • 3.6 Linking the Information: Creating Links
  • 3.7 Storing the Information: Document Management
  • 3.8 Controlling the Information: The Registry
  • 3.9 Finding the Information
  • 3.10 Summary
  • Making Open Hypermedia Work
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Working with Third Party Applications
  • 4.3 Working with Multimedia
  • 4.4 Working with Changeable Data
  • Authoring with Open Hypermedia
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 General Principles: Building a Resource-Base
  • 5.3 Authoring Applications within a Resource-Base
  • 5.4 Applications
  • 5.5 Summary
  • Working with the Web and Distributed Systems
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Accessing the Web from Microcosm
  • 6.3 Exporting Microcosm Datasets to the Web
  • 6.4 Putting Microcosm into the Web
  • 6.5 Distributed Microcosm
  • The Future
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Concept Authoring and CSCW
  • 7.3 Mavis
  • 7.4 Agents
  • 7.5 Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing
  • 7.6 Ending the Tyranny of the Button
  • 7.7 Conclusions
  • Glossary of Microcosm Terms
  • A: A Declarative Model for Microcosm
  • B: Microcosm 3.1.1: The Commercial Version.

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