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MICROCOSM: An Open Hypermedia Environment for Information Integration

MICROCOSM: An Open Hypermedia Environment for Information Integration
MICROCOSM: An Open Hypermedia Environment for Information Integration
This report examines open hypermedia systems, and argues that such systems provide users with richer and more diverse ways to access and integrate information from large and dynamic data sets in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. In particular, the enhanced Microcosm model for open hypermedia is examined, and the ways in which it provides such an environment are discussed. The paper continues by investigating the advantages and the short comings of this model and identifies areas in which further work must be completed before such systems can become widely adopted, in particular the granularity of link anchors, editing, and version control. Possible solutions to these problems are presented and discussed.
Davis, Hugh C.
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Hall, Wendy
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Heath, Ian
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Hill, Gary J.
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Wilkins, Robert J.
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Davis, Hugh C.
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Heath, Ian
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Hill, Gary J.
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Davis, Hugh C., Hall, Wendy, Heath, Ian, Hill, Gary J. and Wilkins, Robert J. (1992) MICROCOSM: An Open Hypermedia Environment for Information Integration

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This report examines open hypermedia systems, and argues that such systems provide users with richer and more diverse ways to access and integrate information from large and dynamic data sets in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. In particular, the enhanced Microcosm model for open hypermedia is examined, and the ways in which it provides such an environment are discussed. The paper continues by investigating the advantages and the short comings of this model and identifies areas in which further work must be completed before such systems can become widely adopted, in particular the granularity of link anchors, editing, and version control. Possible solutions to these problems are presented and discussed.

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Published date: 1992
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 250713
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/250713
PURE UUID: 88b66437-4e23-42c2-a070-c2dd1b03d0cd
ORCID for Hugh C. Davis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1182-1459
ORCID for Wendy Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4327-7811

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Date deposited: 26 Oct 1999
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:36

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Author: Hugh C. Davis ORCID iD
Author: Wendy Hall ORCID iD
Author: Ian Heath
Author: Gary J. Hill
Author: Robert J. Wilkins

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