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....a geographic information system) Double lines indicate that a wrapper stores and retrieves information with a knowledge base. VisualWorks Smalltalk [5] or they only map hypertext to display values as opposed to the objects underlying these values (e.g. with Microcosm s Universal Viewer [4]) We map hypertext links to DMIS elements based on an element s internal identity, not to its display value. A stock s price, for example, can change, but the stock s identity never does. We provide mapping rules (bridge laws [2] describing which components of the DMIS s internal structure ....

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....[Anno, OAM99] CritLink [Cri] and Annotation Engine [Ann] all use content information for robust anchoring. ComMentor and Annotator use a unique substring from the anchor text to search for a new position for the annotation in the document. HyperTED [VCH 94] and the Microcosm Universal Viewer [DKH94], both open hypermedia systems, also used unique substrings and search for anchoring links in documents. While this approach will be robust when the anchor text moves in the document, it is unclear how easily a new position will be found if the unique substring in the document has been modified or ....

Hugh Davis, Simon Knight, and Wendy Hall. Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration. In Proceedings of the 1994 ACM European Conference on Hypermedia Technology, pages 41-50, September 1994.

....enabling and use of legacy applications in connection with hypermedia middleware services. A component framework deploys a particular technique for interaction between its components and this is in contrast to the flexible support needed to hypermedia enable a variety of legacy applications [10, 23]. The issue of application integration is somewhat awkward. If the middleware service developer had the necessary standards and the application developers used them, then this issue would not exist. However, since no standards were available, the open hypermedia field has gone through a series of ....

Davis, H. C., Knight, S., and Hall, W. 1994. Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration. In ACM ECHT '94 Proceedings, (Edinburgh, Scotland, Sep), ACM Press, pp. 41-50.

....Within adjacent field of heterogeneous system integration, parametric generalizations of methods and tools with general purpose software development have been obtained in late 90 s by D.Calvanese [2] D.Florescu, A.Levi [6] and others (ODBC JDBC data integration) D.Linticum [12] H. Davis [5] and others (COM CORBA application integration) as well as Y.Kambayashi (Java, ActiveX, MOM and RPC interface integration) Two most successful examples of state of the art HRIMS include Oracle and Lotus Development Corporation systems. Oracle Human Resources Oracle Human Resources services are ....

H.C.Davis, S.Knight, W.Hall. "Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration". ECHT 1994, p.p.41-50.

....anchors as selectable objects and provide a mechanism for users to select them. Anchors, for example, may overlap (e.g. a data value within an equation where both are anchors, or smaller geographic features embedded within larger ones) Several other compliance issues are discussed in [4] and [7]. Furthermore, the interface module must display new types of information that originate from the hypertext module, including link metainformation, annotations, overviews, and guided tours that restrict user interaction (as well as the hypertext module s own menus, user dialogs, and warning ....

....can provide a foundation for computational applications. Builders can use hyperbase storage engines, such as HB3 [14] and that in the Hyperform development environment (see Wiil, this issue) as a hypertext database for storing nodes, links, and anchors. Hypertext engines, such as Microcosm [7], Multicard [18] and Bieber s [4] can be integrated with applications to provide hypertext support. Application components can be declared, scheduled, and activated using the Trellis interactive development environment (see Furuta and Stotts in this issue) Builders can employ toolkits such as ....

Davis, H., Knight, S., and Hall, W. Light hypermedia link services: A study of third-party application integration. In European Conference on Hypermedia Technologies

....with minimal modifications to it, and provide the applications users with hypermedia support. Few approaches provide transparent hypermedia integration as our engine does. Notable projects include Microcosms Universal Viewer, Freckles and the OO Navigator and SFX. Microcosm s Universal Viewer (Davis et al. 1994) and Freckles (Kacmar 1993, 1995) seamlessly support an applications other functionality but provide only manual linking. OO Navigator comes the closest to our approach, providing a seamless hypermedia support for computational systems that execute within a single Smalltalk environment (Garrido ....

Davis, H., Knight, S., and Hall, W., (1994). Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration, Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technologies, Edinburgh, Scotland, 158166.

....searching, although simpler for the user, results in an imprecise search because it ignores the inherent structure of the information space. Hypermedia provides users with a well understood methodology for interacting with information via browsing and navigation. Additionally, Open Hypermedia [1, 14, 30, 11, 27] is a paradigm that allows information to be customised and adapted to the user. In this paper, we argue that Open Hypermedia is the right approach to solve the problem of interacting with an ontological information space. In order to investigate the potential of the approach, we have overlayed a ....

....however FOHM is capable of expressing all three domains. Before we can examine FOHM it is necessary to define these domains. Navigational Hypertext is the most traditional domain of hypertext, exemplified in Open Hypermedia Systems such as Chimera [1] DHM [14] HyperForm [30] Microcosm [11] and the HB SP series [27] Authors create Links between parts of documents that are related. Users can then click on those links to move between documents. Although Navigational Hypertext systems can be quite sophisticated, by far the most popular system, the World Wide Web, is also one of the ....

DAV S,H.C.,KNIGHT,S.,AND HALL, W. Light hypermedia link services: A study of third party application integration. In ECHT '94. Proceedings of the ACM European conference on Hypermedia technology, Sept. 18-23, 1994, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (1994), pp. 41--50.

....few years, but the problem of embedded links remains a longer term problem. The issue of changing the whole paradigm of the web is addressed by Hill (1996) and by Andrews (1996) Both of these are interesting because they point a way forward. Hill describes how the Microcosm hypermedia system (Davis, Knight Hall, 1994) deals with some of the issues of navigation and how a distributed link service can help. He comments that Although it is possible to extend the features available [in standard web browsers] using CGI scripts. HTML is not always an ideal presentation medium. e.g. creating a tour ....

DAVIS, H., KNIGHT,S.&HALL, W. (1994). Light Hypermedia link services: a study of third party application integration. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Hypermedia, pp. 41---50. Edinburgh, Scotland: ACM Press.

....can be from an aspect of that node to the destination; The relationship that a particular link maps can be global to the application, i.e. from any node describing some concept, do the destination. If link markers are not maintained with the data, which is typically a better implementation [Davis94], its location within an aspect must be computed Solution: Define Anchor as the representation of a link within a node, and make it responsible of link activation. An anchor relates a link marker to the link itself, so the link is independent of any means of activating it. Anchors could be ....

.... anchors as those that are not dependent of a node s content, marked anchors for those links defined from a node s aspect and activated through a link marker attached to a node s content, and unmarked anchors for those anchors which location inside a node s content is computed on demand [Davis94]. Marked and unmarked anchors actually delegate to the link marker the identification of the position dependent of the data type. Known uses: Dexter Reference Model [Haslasz94] hypermedia design methodologies as HDM [Garzotto91] OOHDM [Schwabe96] and hypermedia systems as Devise Hypermedia ....

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....will have to provide the document author with a method for managing these dependencies. Unfortunately, this is a complex subject. Prior experience with frameworks for dependencies among multiple open objects includes such celebrated cases as the well known Model View Controller paradigm (MVC) [11]. Experience with MVC is best described as mixed; Smalltalk environments with off the shelf classes for MVC have proved a rich ground for experimentation, but MVC has not been popular in commercial systems, to the point that it is probably not an exaggeration to describe MVC as obscure among ....

....NIST. 8] 1997. Anti Links . ht lit Mailing List thread (Sep) ftp: consecol.org pub ht lit lt lit.9709 . 9] Joyce, Michael. 1990. Afternoon. Eastgate Systems, Watertown, MA. 10] Joyce, Michael. 1995. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. [11] Krasner, G. E. Pope, S. T. 1988. A cookbook for using the model view controller user interface paradigm in Smalltalk 80. Journal of Object Oriented Programming (Aug Sep) 26 49. 12] Marshall, Catherine C. Halasz, Frank G. Rogers, Russell A. Janssen, William C. Jr. 1991. Aquanet: a ....

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Davis, H. C., Knight, S., & Hall, W. 1994. Light hypermedia link services: a study of third party application integration. Proceedings of ECHT '94 (Edinburgh, Scotland, Sep), ACM Press, 41-50.

....integration with OHSs has been thoroughly investigated. A number of researchers have made important contributions to the understanding of application integration in OHSs: Davis et al. describes various methods and techniques used to integrate existing applications with the Microcosm system [18]. The Microcosm experience suggests six different levels of application integration. Davis et al. presents a proposal for a standard service interface named the Open Hypermedia Protocol (OHP) which allows integrated applications to be shared among OHSs [19] Whitehead presents an architectural ....

Davis, H. C., Knight, S., and Hall, W. Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration. In Proceedings of ACM ECHT `94, (Edinburgh, Scotland, Sep 1994), pp. 41-50.

....to undertake DIM tasks already have parallels within the agent community. For example, we envisage the user interface agent to be an expression of the work undertaken by Maes [17] and Lieberman [16] in developing agents that learn from the user and adapt to their needs. Furthermore, Microcosm [6] has shown how an open hypermedia system can integrate with third party applications in a variety of ways to allow users to associate their preferred browsers and editors with different media types. Microcosm has a concept of awareness to represent the level of integration an application can ....

DAVIS, H. C., KNIGHT, S. J. and HALL, W., Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Hypermedia Technology, Edinburgh, UK, September 1994.

....the first system to use the term Web for a specific hypermedia structure. 3 The WWW use embedded unidirectional links also known as embedded addresses whereas open hypermedia system designers provide n ary bi directional external link objects stored in separate databases (Grnbk Trigg, 1994; Davis et al. 1994; Carr et al. 1995; Grnbk Trigg, In Press) see Figure 1. We claim that both of these types of structures are useful and necessary in order to support the kind of dynamic hypermedia discussed in Section 1. Go to Link object Embedded addresses: e.g. WWW Openhypermedia: e.g. ....

Davis, H.C., Knight, S., and Hall, W. Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Integration. in European Congerence on Hypermedia Technology (ECHT '94). 1994. Edinburgh, UK.: ACM.

....existed, while user defined link types were also made possible. The current HTML standard proposal [21] contains a subset of the HTML specification on link types. 2. 3 Link Types in Open (Hypermedia) Systems Many open hypermedia systems have been implemented, e.g. Chimera [1] Microcosm [10], DHM [13] HyperWave [26] and MultiCard [33] but none of them support a link type system coming close to that of TextNet or NoteCard. Microcosm supports different link behaviours for what is called specific links, generic links, local links, and retrieval links. However, these different link ....

Davis, H.C., Knight, S., Hall, W. (1994) Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Integration. In European Congerence on Hypermedia Technology (ECHT '94). Edinburgh, UK. ACM.

....1 INTRODUCTION Open hypermedia systems [15] emphasize delivery of hypermedia functionality to the third party applications populating a user s computing environment. Yet with the exception of the excellent paper by Hugh Davis, et al. describing application integration with the Microcosm system [5], the emphasis to date has been on describing the open hypermedia systems themselves, rather than the details of integrating third party applications to work with the system. As a result, there is little guidance available for those who wish to perform such an integration, or who wish to design ....

....multiple views of the calendar information, such as by month or by day. Calendar does not have a built in customization language, or a built in external application program interface. As a result, the integration of Microsoft Calendar with Microcosm, shown in Figure 3, and initially described in [5], employs the Microcosm Universal Viewer. The Universal Viewer, unbeknownst to its host application, attaches a Microcosm Figure 1: Screen shot of XEmacs Chimera integration XEmacs Socket I O Text Stream I O Text Stream I O Chimera RPC Chimera Shell Chimera RPC Chimera Code for menu, ....

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....redistribute to lists, requires specific permission and or fee. Hypertext 97, Southampton UK 1997 ACM 0 89791 866 5. 3. 50 219 VisualWorks Smalltalk [5] or they only map hypertext to display values as opposed to the objects underlying these values (e.g. with Microcosm s Universal Viewer [4]) We map hypertext links to DMIS elements based on an element s internal identity, not to its display value. A stock s price, for example, can change, but the stock s identity never does. We provide mapping rules (bridge laws [2] describing which components of the DMIS s internal structure ....

H. Davis, S. Knight and W. Hall, "Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration," ECHT'94 Proceedings, 158-166.

....traversal and search over the hypermedia structures. This, in turn, enables various analyses and visualizations to be performed on the hyperweb. 1 Unlike monolithic hypermedia systems (such as KMS [1] an OHS can integrate a wide variety of clients through a suite of integration techniques [5]. In addition, the architecture of an OHS is distributed in terms of execution, data, and time. The first category refers to the concurrent execution of both clients and servers across a set of host machines. The second category implies that clients and servers can store and retrieve their ....

Davis, H., Knight, S., and Hall, W. (1994). Light hypermedia link services: A study of third party application integration. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, pages 41--50, Edinburgh, Scotland.

....display anchors as selectable objects and provide a mechanism for users to select them. Anchors, e.g. may overlap (e.g. a data value within an equation where both are anchors, or smaller geographic features embedded within larger ones) 4] discusses several other compliance issues (as does [7]) Furthermore, the interface module must display new types of information that originate from the hypertext module, including link metainformation, annotations, overviews and guided tours that restrict user interaction (as well as the hypertext module s own menus, user dialogs and warning ....

....can provide a foundation for computational applications. Builders can use hyperbase storage engines such as HB3 [14] and that in the Hyperform development environment (see Wiil s sidebar) as a hypertext database for storing nodes, links and anchors. Hypertext engines such as Microcosm [7], Multicard [18] and Bieber s [4] can be integrated with applications to provide hypertext support. Application components can be declared, scheduled and activated using the Trellis interactive development environment (see Furuta and Stotts sidebar) Builders can employ toolkits such as HOT [17] ....

H. Davis, S. Knight, and W. Hall. Light hypermedia link services: A study of third party application integration. In European Conference on Hypermedia Technologies 1994 Proceedings, pages 41--50, Edinburgh, September 1994.

....retrieval of hypermedia structures and provide hypermedia operations over these structures. These approaches have yielded a significant number of systems [1, 3, 11, 17, 21, 22] that have demonstrated the ability to integrate a wide range of applications with various levels of hypermedia support [4]. Even techniques for integrating third party black box applications have emerged providing a modest level of hypermedia support. However, in order to utilize the complete range of hypermedia services available from these systems, developers must expend a significant amount of effort modifying ....

H. Davis, S. Knight, and W. Hall. Light hypermedia link services: A study of third party application integration. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, pages 41--50, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1994.

....of new tools that may easily be integrated into the system. Microcosm also separates the front end of the open hypermedia system from the back end. The front end consists of viewers and is responsible for user interaction, that can go from fully Microcosm aware viewers to unaware viewers (Davis et al. 1994). The back end consists of a chain of filters (processes) and is responsible for many of the operations requested by the user. Connecting all this there is a dipole Document Control System Filter Management System that is responsible for managing and integrating the whole system, as shown in ....

Davis et al. 1994 H Davis, S Knight, W Hall, "Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration", In Proceedings of the 1994 European Conference on Hypermedia Technology, Edinburgh, 18-23 September, 1994.

....was designed with the assumption that Chimera would enter an environment with many pre existing tools which would eventually be integrated with it. Thus the model had to be as flexible as possible. 6. 5 Microcosm Microcosm is an open hypertext system developed at the University of Southampton [5, 6, 15]. It is a link service that attempts to keep all aspects of the system such as the hypertext model, the messages passed from applications to Microcosm, and Microcosm s response to such messages open and tailorable. Microcosm aware applications send selections and action pairs to the Microcosm ....

H. Davis, S. Knight, and W. Hall. Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1994.

....media sources, while the right Figure 3: Snapshot of a System Run hand column sketches the subtasks for the case of starting from raw sources. In the hypermedia community, much work has been devoted to the development of tools for processing unstructured media sources. For example, Microcosm (Davis et al. 1994) reduces the authoring costs by providing mechanisms for dynamic link generation based upon text retrieval methods. That is, it mainly concentrates on the first two subtasks, i.e. content selection, and content organization. Systems like CMIFed (Hardman et al. 1994) and FIREFLY (Buchanan and ....

Davis, H., S. Knight, and W. Hall. 1994. "Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration." In Proc. of the 1994 European Conference on Hypermedia Technology , Edinburgh.

....three actual approaches to storing this information: 1. Embed all the information within node content at the hotspot (see WWW) 2. Embed a persistent selection within the content, but store the link externally [46] 3. Store both the link and the pointers to the hotspot objects externally [22]. In our approach we have a merge of the three previous approaches; in fact, the requested information is both embedded in the node (HypActor or Collector) and stored externally (in the HypLink) in this way, we gain the several advantages allowable separately by the three approaches: ....

Davis, H., Knight, S. K., Hall, W. (1994). Light Hypermedia link services: A Study in third party application integration. Proc. of the European Conference on Hypermedia Technologies, September, 77-86.

....computing environments, both with regard to the integration of different tools and the integration of different data formats and data exchange. We have seen a rapidly growing interest in the design, development and deployment of open hypermedia platforms such as Sun s Link Service [13] Microcosm [2, 3], Proxhy [8] Multicard [14] DHM [4, 5] Hyperform [19] SP3 [9] and Chimera [1] An open hypermedia platform supports inter tool linking as a means of integrating distributed heterogeneous tools and data formats. System developers are supplied with an open system architecture including a link ....

....and link server [21] The open hyperbase category (DHM [4, 5] and SP3 [9] includes a HBMS supporting a full hypermedia data model capable of providing storage to hypermedia tools as well as providing storage of connectivity information to thirdparty tools. The link server category (Microcosm [2, 3], Proxhy [8] Multicard [14] Sun s Link Service [13] and Chimera [1] makes the assumption that participating tools use other information repositories to store their documents and only use the hypermedia platform to store and retrieve connectivity information. This latter type of platform ....

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....multiuser systems. In the past few years, several open hypermedia systems (OHSs) have been presented in the literature, including Sun s Link Service [20] Proxhy [16] 1 The outline of the taxonomy resembles the Danish flag as well as the flag of other Scandinavian countries. Microcosm [4, 5, 15], Multicard [21] DeVise Hypermedia (DHM) 9, 10, 11, 12] Hyperform [24] SP3 [18] Chimera [2] and HyperDisco [26] The fact that each of these OHSs have introduced their own hypermedia data model, architectural framework and link protocol (protocol for exchanging information with third party ....

....work in both the data model manager and the session manager. The notification mechanism allows different endusers to be informed of changes done by other end users, and the locking mechanism allows collaboration in a se cure fashion. 4. 2 Link Server: Microcosm Microcosm is described in [4, 5, 15]. Microcosm is based on a link filter approach [15] which basically is a special way of organizing the link marker resolver function, merging static, once and computed. Endpoint selection is manual. Link marker resolution can be tailored using a dedicated tool to manipulate the order in which ....

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..... There exists a large number of legacy applications which do have just basic link functionalities or even no link mechanisms at all. By means of ECA rules it is feasible to make these applications link aware with only slight adoptions which can be done, for example, by means of macro programming [16]. Thus, also these applications are able to provide link functionality. 3.3.2 Mapping Hyperlinks to ECA Rules The specification of the semantics of a link comprises two issues: Firstly, to which situations (in which context) should the link policy be applied, and secondly, if that situation ....

....issues as part of future work. First, we will explore the idea of an event request broker as generalization of a link request broker to deal not only with links but with all kinds of event driven behaviour. And second, we will further investigate the problem of third party application integration [16] by using ECA rules. ....

DAVIS, H. C., KNIGHT, S., HALL, W., Light hypermedia link services: A study of third party application integration, in: European Conference on Hypertext Technology (ECHT) '94, Edinburgh, Scotland, pages 41---50, 1994.

....aims to allow hypertext facilities to be accessed from any available application, thus acting as a service component of the user s environment. In order to provide such a facility, link information must be managed separately from documents, so that links may be applied to documents in any format [Davis et al. 94] The World Wide Web (WWW) is undoubtedly one of the more successful hypertext systems, but it is a largely closed system, dependent on the use of HTML document content for the provision of linking facilities. Although links may be created to documents other than those in HTML and image formats, ....

H. Davis, S. Knight, W. Hall, Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration, in Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Hypertext, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1994, ACM Press, 41-50.

....entities within the system are to be authenticated) Brokering. One of the most powerful attributes of the Microcosm architecture has been its ability to integrate with almost any third party application on the Microsoft Windows desktop, albeit at varying levels, as demonstrated by Davis [7]. These techniques must now be advanced to allow Microcosm TNG to integrate effectively within a distributed environment. To satisfy this need, we are currently experimenting with emerging technologies such as Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) 18] and ANSAware, which display great ....

DAVIS, H. C., KNIGHT, S. J. and HALL, W., Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration. In: ECHT '94 Proceedings, Edinburgh, Scotland (September), ACM Press, pages 41-50, 1994.

....to interoperability. 1 History of the OHP E#ort 1.1 Original Proposal The First Workshop on Open Hypermedia [25] was held at Edinburgh in conjunction with ECHT 94. This workshop was concerned with the growing class of hypermedia systems such as Chimera [2] DHM [9] HyperForm [24] Microcosm [5], Multicard [20] and the HB SP series [21] which clearly separated hypertext structure (links) from the content (documents) The participants in this workshop were keen to provide hypertext link services which could provide hypertext structure for documents which were displayed using existing ....

Davis, H. C., Knight, S., and Hall, W. Light hypermedia link services: A study of third party application integration. In ECHT '94. Proceedings of the ACM European conference on Hypermedia technology, Sept. 18-23, 1994, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (1994), pp. 41--50.

....(DLS) as such a system. It is able to work in conjunction with existing WWW resources to support an additional underlying link service, which is able to provide the features described in the previous section. This system is based upon our experiences developing the Microcosm hypertext system [Davis et al. 1994]. Like Microcosm, the DLS utilizes a variety of link database processes to offer flexible hypertext functionality to a wide range of end user applications. The DLS [Carr et al. 1995] is composed of two parts: the server facilities that are accessed via the WWW, and the client interface that works ....

Davis, H., S. Knight, W. Hall (1994), "Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration," In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Hypertext, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1994, ACM Press, pp. 41-50.

....of the link service operations, a DLS client was produced for various platforms. The client presented itself as a set of menus attached to the title bar of any document viewer. It was a simple utility that formulated DLS requests and communicates these to the selected link server via a WWW browser [7]. The client allowed the user to select a predefined context, or topic of interest, from one menu and reacted to DLS requests from a second menu (figure 1a) Details of the selection the user made, the document in which this selection was found, and any selected context were encapsulated as an ....

Davis, H., S. Knight, W. Hall (1994), "Light Hypermedia Link Services: A Study of Third Party Application Integration," In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Hypertext, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1994, ACM Press, pp. 41-50.

....enabling applications to make them link service aware, so that users may have access to the full range of hypermedia functionality from their standard desktop environment. Many of the current generation of hypermedia systems such as DHM (Gr nb k Trigg, 1992) HyperDisco (Wiil, 1996) Microcosm (Davis et al. 1994), Multicard (Rizk Sauter, 1992) and the Texas A M system prototypes (e.g. Kacmar Leggett) have addressed this problem, but so far no standard has emerged due to the different hypertext data models and communication protocols adopted by these systems. Unfortunately, linkservice protocols tend ....

....so long as they observed the protocols. The problem with this approach is that some hypermedia systems have much heavier weight requirements on their protocols than others. However many developers have recently acknowledged that it is necessary to accept the concept of levels of awareness (e.g. Davis et al. 1994, Wiil, 1996) and that it will not always be possible or reasonable to expect the highest level of hypertext functionality from every third party application. Reflecting these pragmatic observations we propose that the OHP protocol will have a number of levels of conformity, and it would thus be ....

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