HAAN92

CS4624 HAAN92

Haan, Kahn, Riley, Coombs, and Meyrowitz: pages (v35/n01/HAAN92)
IRIS Hypermedia Services
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Bernard J. Haan
Paul Kahn
Victor A. Riley
James H. Coombs
Norman K. Meyrowitz

Excerpt:

The subject of this article is hypermedia systems. The authors were part of a team that developed Intermedia at Brown University's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) between 1985 and 1990. Intermedia is distinct from many other hypermedia systems in that it is intended to model a multiuser hypermedia framework rather than a single hypermedia program. We did not want to create an isolated hypermedia "island" where linking functionality was limited to connections between homogeneous data managed by a single program [16]. Our intention was to create a model for how hypermedia functionality should be handled at the system level, where linking would be available for all participating applications in much the same way that copying to and pasting from the clipboard facility is supported in the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows environments.