Document Model Issues for Hypermedia

A number of different systems exist for creating multimedia or hypermedia applications—each with its own internal document model. This leads to problems in comparing documents created by these systems, and in describing the information captured by a document for long-term (system independent) storage and future playback. We discuss the components which should be considered for a hypermedia document model. These include the hierarchical and linking structure of a document and the spatial and temporal relations among components of the document. Other aspects, such as transportability of documents and information retrieval, are also addressed briefly. We present the Amsterdam Hypermedia Model which, while expressing only a subset of all possible structures, has been used as a basis for a comprehensive authoring environment.

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