Light Hypermedia Link Services:
A Study of Third Party Application Integration
(From ECHT '94)
Hugh C. Davis, Simon Knight and Wendy Hall
Abstract
Recently there has been a tendency for the research community to move
away from closed hypermedia
systems, towards open hypermedia link services which allow third
parties to produce applications so that
they are hypertext-enabled. This paper explores the frontiers of this
trend by examining the minimum
responsibility of an application to co-operate with the underlying
link service, and, in the limiting case
where the application has not been enabled in any way, it explores the
properties and qualities of
hypermedia systems that can be produced. A tool, the Universal Viewer,
which allows the Microcosm
Hypermedia System to co-operate with applications which have not been
enabled is introduced and a case
study is presented which demonstrates the functionality that may be
achieved using entirely third party
applications, most of which have not been enabled.
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Multimedia Research Group
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
Written by Gary Hill