Open Hypermedia Systems Working Group

Navigation domain

There have been a number of "open" hypertext systems discussed in the literature, but as yet these systems do not inter-operate. Meanwhile, the World Wide Web has been universally adopted, and part of this success must be attributed to the open protocols, which have allowed system developers to produce their own servers and clients which inter-operate with others. This section presents a general data model for hypertext and proposes a standard protocol for client side applications to communicate with link servers for the purpose of storing, retrieving and navigating hypertext objects. Adoption of this protocol would enable developers and researchers to re-use standard viewers and link servers within their systems.

• Introduction
• A Common Data Model
• The Assumed Architecture
• A Proposal for an Open Hypertext Protocol
• Future Work
• A Discussion on Behaviors, v3 (also available, v2 and v1)
• Appendices
• A. Location Specifications
• B. Presentation Specifications
• C. Content Specifications
• D. Script Specifications
• References

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