Hyper-G

The Hyper-G system has been developed in Graz, Austria. It can function as a standard server for WWW, accessible through Mosaic at any Hyper-G server, such as the Hyper-G root. Note that J.UCS is an electronic journal, coordinated from Graz, accessible using Hyper-G, with links from the 2 above-mentioned servers.

Hyper-G also has many innovations relative to Mosaic, such as:

• Links are stored in a distributed object-oriented database.
• Users communicate with a local server which caches data from other servers.
• Multimedia information can be presented as it is received instead of having to wait for the entire file to be transmitted.
• Viewers are available for each type of information, so a link can be to a portion of an image, or part of a movie, or string of words in a text file.
• Local maps of links to and from the current node are automatically drawn.
• Users can organize documents using collections, that can be expanded or collapsed with a click of the interface.
• Multilingual support is present in the interface and in selecting documents.
• Automatic indexing of new nodes and built in search support.

Hyper-G has a command-line interface, a Mac interface under development, and:

• Powerful PC client (Amadeus)
• Powerful UNIX client (Harmony)