| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Digital communication
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Digital communication.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index. |
| Contents |
Hypermedia in Support of Integration -- Open Hypermedia in a Historical Context -- Hypertext and hypermedia -- Evolution of open hypermedia -- Open hypermedia research issues -- Methods of open hypermedia design -- An open hypermedia design pattern -- Hypermedia at Work -- Heterogeneous materials, applications, and platforms -- Linking and grouping materials -- Need for cooperation support -- Envisioning an open hypermedia service architecture -- Impending challenges for hypermedia design -- Dexter Model and Beyond -- Goals of the Dexter group -- Participants and their systems -- Dexter's recommendations -- Dexter and open systems: Problems and issues -- Hypermedia Fundamentals -- Locations, Placements, and Interconnections -- Links as embedded locators -- Separating links from placements -- Anchoring -- Problems with the Dexter approach -- New forms of specification: refSpecs and locSpecs -- RefSpecs and the Hytime standard -- RefSpecs and the World Wide Web -- Patterns for locators, placements, and interconnections -- Components: Structuring Primitives -- Nodes, cards, and documents: Unpacking the metaphors -- Dexter approach: Atomic components as wrappers -- Problems with the Dexter component -- Designing flexible components -- Patterns for components and anchors -- Links: Traversable Components -- Link metaphors -- Link directionality -- Computed links -- Dexter group's "no dangling links" rule -- Issues in link traversal -- A pattern for link structuring -- Composites: Structured Components. |
| Summary |
In this book Kaj Gronbaek and Randall H. Trigg present a set of principles for the design of open hypermedia systems and provide concrete implications of these principles for issues ranging from data structures to architectures and system integration and for settings as diverse as the World Wide Web and the workplace. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Interactive multimedia.
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Interactive multimedia. |
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World Wide Web.
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World Wide Web. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Trigg, Randall H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grønbæk, Kaj. From Web to workplace. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262071916 (DLC) 98034700 (OCoLC)39539092 |
| ISBN |
0585087245 (electronic book) |
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9780585087245 (electronic book) |
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9780262071918 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262071916 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262274450 (electronic book) |
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9780262274456 (electronic book) |
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0262071916 |
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