Open Hypermedia Overview

Open hypermedia is an approach to relationship management and information organization that is characterized by three key features:

External Links: Relationships are stored and managed separately from the information they relate. This approach allows content and relationships to evolve independently, enables links to read-only content, and allows multiple sets of links to be maintained over the same set of information.
Third-Party Application Integration: Open hypermedia provides hypermedia services to all integrated applications. The underlying motivation is that eventually hypermedia services, such as link navigation, should be available from all of the applications in a user's computing environment and not arbitrarily restricted to a special hypermedia browser.
Sophisticated Hypermedia Data Models: Open hypermedia systems provide advanced hypermedia data models to enable the modeling of complex relationships and to provide sophisticated hypermedia services, such as guided tours, anchor and link attributes, filtering, etc., over these relationships.

Recently, the open hypermedia community has addressed issues of interoperability between open hypermedia systems and integration of open hypermedia services into the World Wide Web. Professor Ken Anderson, a member of SERL, has been conducting research in the area of open hypermedia since 1992 and has been exploring its use in supporting large-scale software development projects.

Projects

Chimera

Open Hypermedia Infrastructure