A Hypermedia System for Artifact-Based Collaboration

Abstract

Our project is studying the process by which groups of individuals work together to build large, complex structures of ideas, and we are developing a distributed hypermedia system to support the process. This description includes a brief overview of the system, but emphasizes three components: a hypermedia data management system or graph server, a set of browsers for working with graph objects, and a set of applications for working with data contents of graph nodes. A number of research issues are raised and discussed in context, including: composite objects; anchored links; scaling up for large applications; partitioning the hypermedia graph; consistency and completeness across subgraphs; and an open, extensible architecture for applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA242047

Entities

People

  • F. D. Smith
  • John B. Smith

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Data Management
  • Language
  • Materials
  • Object Code
  • Organizational Structure
  • Programming Languages
  • Robotics
  • Software Design
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Software Engineering.