A Distributed Hypermedia Link Service

  • Authors:
  • David DeRoure;Les Carr;Wendy Hall;Gary Hill

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SDNE '96 Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE '96)
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Open hypermedia is an established model within the hypermedia research community; it provides an approach to engineering flexible and maintainable hypermedia systems based on the concept of a hypermedia link service. However, the World Wide Web, which provides an important solution for distributed hypermedia, is typically used as a closed hypermedia system: it does not exploit the link service concept. This paper presents the design of a system which applies the open hypermedia philosophy to World Wide Web, whereby the link service component is abstracted out into a third party service known as the Distributed Link Service (DLS). A scaleable architecture for DLS is discussed and experience with a prototype is described.