2 Basic Features of a Hypertext System
- A Graphical User Interface, with the
help of browsers and
overview diagrams, helps the user to navigate through large amounts of information by activating
links and reading the contents of nodes.
- An authoring system with tools to create and manage nodes (of multiple media) and links.
- Traditional information retrieval (IR) mechanisms
such as keyword searches, author searches etc. There are also attempts to
incorporate structure queries
along with content queries -
retrieving a part of the hypertext network based on some user-specified
criteria.
- A hypermedia engine to manage information about nodes and links.
- A storage system which can be a filesystem or a knowledge base or a
relational database management system
or an object-oriented database
management system.
The next topic is: Systems and People.