Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach (Hardcover, 1996)

List of Figures. Motivations: 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. How we Started. 1.3. Why Microcosm. 1.4. The Vision. A Brief History of Hypermedia: 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. The Original Vision. 2.3. Hypermedia for Personal Computers. 2.4. Standards for Hypertext Systems and Information Exchange. 2.5. Hypertext on the Internet. 2.6. Open Hypermedia Systems and Link Services. 2.7. Conclusions. Implementing Open Hypermedia: Microcosm: 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Overview. 3.3. The Link Service Model. 3.4. Interacting with the Information: Viewers. 3.5. Processing the Information: Filters. 3.6. Linking the Information: Creating Links. 3.7. Storing the Information: Document Management. 3.8. Controlling the Information: The Registry. 3.9. Finding the Information. 3.10. Summary. Making Open Hypermedia Work: 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Working with Third Party Applications. 4.3. Working with Multimedia. 4.4. Working with Changeable Data. Authoring With Open Hypermedia: 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. General Principles: Building a Resource-Base. 5.3. Authoring Applications within a Resource-Base. 5.4. Applications. 5.5. Applications. 5.5. Summary. Working with the Web and Distributed Systems: 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Accessing the Web from Microcosm. 6.3. Exporting Microcosm Datasets to the Web. 6.4. Putting Microcosm into the Web. 6.5. Distributed Microcosm. The Future: 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Concept Authoring and CSCW. 7.3. Mavis. 7.4. Agents. 7.5. Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing. 7.6. Ending the Tyranny of the Button. 7.7. Conclusions. Glossary of Microcosm Terms. A: A Declarative Model for Microcosm. B: Microcosm 3.1.1: The Commercial Version. Bibliography. Index.