Advanced Tutorial in Hypermedia Research

Overview

I have a paper copy of the transparencies to this tutorial.

An overview of terminology, aimed at getting perople to use the same terms. His were basically the same as ours .
Multi-User Hypermedia
Inter-Network Hypermedia
Information Retrieval and Hypermedia
HyperText and text Markup
Links to and from temporal media
The structural model vs. the programming model.

Architecture

The conclusion of this talk was the presentation of a software architecture for the next generation of hypertext systems. This differed in some ways from the WorldWideWeb architecture, and was therefore interesting. The architecure was designed to handle Inter-network hypermedia ("an up-and-coming area of research"). The model was that:-

The operating system should include link services which all applications will be encouraged to use, so that inter-application jumps will be possible.
The link information will be stored separately from the documents in a database in each filesystem.
Details of each link will be stored by both the source and destination link servers.
There will be a common file system which will allow remote applications to access the document when they follow a link.
There will be common document formats, so that common access to files is all that is needed for document interchange.