A hypermedia approach to digital libraries: review of research issues

ABSTRACT

Digital libraries can provide users with fast access to large, complex, richly connected, and cross-referenced bodies of information. They can be considered as applications based on the hypermedia paradigm. Hypermedia is hypertext with multimedia. The principle behind hypertext or hypermedia is nodes of information (concepts) associated through links (relationships). It is essentially non-linear organization and presentation of information. Nodes can contain text, graphics, animation, audio, video, and even other applications.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Hypertext/hypermedia

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Hypertext navigation and maps**

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Performance, Reliability, Theory