An open hypermedia link service architecture supporting multiple context models
An open hypermedia link service architecture supporting multiple context models
Open hypermedia concerns itself with finding ways to provide links between information using systems that allow the direct manipulation of links. These systems are generally built in component fashion, a major component will be the Link Service. This thesis extends previous work on building link services for the World Wide Web in order to improve the quality of linking that can be provided. A link service delivers links into Web pages dynamically, this allows the system the opportunity to adapt the links to suit the user and content. The more general form of this adaption is to deliver links in some context. The core of this work is to examine how to generalise the delivery of links in context so that new context models and techniques can be introduced without writing a new link service each time.
This thesis examines the problem of defining models of context and how different models are often incompatible. It introduces a new architecture for exploring methods of providing links in context. The architecture consists of a core infrastructure along with a method for dynamically changing the components of the system concerned with the link model and the computation process for generating the final link to deliver.
The effectiveness of the architecture is explored through the undertaking of a number of projects using real-world data. The limits of the design are explored and the analysis focuses on how successful it is possible to be given the goals set.
University of Southampton
Hughes, Gareth Vaughan
809a291b-088c-41ef-9fb2-a07dc5dd7115
2003
Hughes, Gareth Vaughan
809a291b-088c-41ef-9fb2-a07dc5dd7115
Hughes, Gareth Vaughan
(2003)
An open hypermedia link service architecture supporting multiple context models.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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Open hypermedia concerns itself with finding ways to provide links between information using systems that allow the direct manipulation of links. These systems are generally built in component fashion, a major component will be the Link Service. This thesis extends previous work on building link services for the World Wide Web in order to improve the quality of linking that can be provided. A link service delivers links into Web pages dynamically, this allows the system the opportunity to adapt the links to suit the user and content. The more general form of this adaption is to deliver links in some context. The core of this work is to examine how to generalise the delivery of links in context so that new context models and techniques can be introduced without writing a new link service each time.
This thesis examines the problem of defining models of context and how different models are often incompatible. It introduces a new architecture for exploring methods of providing links in context. The architecture consists of a core infrastructure along with a method for dynamically changing the components of the system concerned with the link model and the computation process for generating the final link to deliver.
The effectiveness of the architecture is explored through the undertaking of a number of projects using real-world data. The limits of the design are explored and the analysis focuses on how successful it is possible to be given the goals set.
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