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Hypermedia genes an evolutionary perspective on concepts, models, and architectures /

The design space of information services evolved from seminal works through a set of prototypical hypermedia systems and matured in open and widely accessible web-based systems. The original concepts of hypermedia systems are now expressed in different forms and shapes. The first works on hypertext...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guimarães, Nuno M.
Other Authors: Carriço, Luís M.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2010.
Series:Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services (Online), # 11.
Subjects:
Interactive multimedia.
Multimedia systems.
Web site development.
Online Access:Abstract with links to full text
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • The structure of this lecture
  • Not addressed here
  • How to use this lecture
  • 2. Original visions and concepts
  • Knowledge and association
  • Non-linearity and navigation
  • Augmentation and serendipity
  • 3. Steps in the evolution
  • Original systems
  • Reference systems
  • Data models
  • Open hypermedia architectures
  • Component-based applications
  • Group and collaborative behavior
  • The media evolution
  • 4. Information and structured documents
  • The origins
  • Reference standards
  • 5. Web-based environments
  • 6. Some research trends
  • Adaptive hypermedia
  • Social linking
  • 7. A framework of traits
  • 8. A phylogenetic analysis
  • An evolutionary analysis of hypermedia systems
  • The phylogenetic trees and diagrams
  • Discussion of the analysis
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Authors' biographies.

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