Title :
Microcosm TNG: a framework for distributed open hypermedia
Author :
Goose, Stuart ; Hall, Wendy ; Reich, Siegfried
Author_Institution :
Siemens Corp. Res. Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Increased amounts of information and users´ rising demands for advanced link services pose strong challenges to distributed hypermedia systems. Novel presentation facilities, nontextual digital media, personalization of content and structures, and many more techniques often require complex processing and thus imply new interaction styles. Microcosm TNG (The Next Generation), which is a framework for distributed open hypermedia, offers new mechanisms for desktop and Internet integration. It also promotes a modular approach to authoring hypermedia resources
Keywords :
Internet; authoring systems; distributed processing; hypermedia; interactive systems; open systems; Internet integration; Microcosm TNG; advanced hyperlink services; complex processing; content personalization; desktop integration; distributed open hypermedia framework; hypermedia resources; interaction styles; modular authoring approach; nontextual digital media; presentation facilities; structure personalization; Collaborative work; Content based retrieval; Data models; Internet; Joining processes; Multimedia systems; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; Resource description framework; XML;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
