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The Computer Journal 1989 32(6):516-523; doi:10.1093/comjnl/32.6.516
© 1989 by British Computer Society
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HYPERTEXT – Moving Towards Large Volumes

I. Ritchie

Office Workstations Limited, Rosebank House, 144 Broughton Road, Edinburgh EH7 4LE and OWL International Inc., 2800 156th Avenue SE, Bellevue, Washington 98007, USA

Received 1 June 1989; Hypertext is an approach to information management in which documentation is displayed as a network of nodes connected by links. Such nodes can contain text, graphics, audio, video or can link to other software or data.

The result is a very powerful publishing medium. It is now possible to provide large volumes of information in the form of interactive documents and to make it accessible to a wide population of users. As the volume of data grows, however, the task of authoring and reading such documents becomes much more complex.

The paper reviews hypertext technology, both in the research laboratory and in commercial application. It then examines the types of software tools which are required to manage, maintain and diagnose faults in large-volume Hypertext systems, based on experience with GUIDE hypertext technology at Office Workstations Limited, which has led to a volume document management system called IDEX.


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