The Computer Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 24, 2005
The Computer Journal 2006 49(1):20-31; doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxh146
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Atomic Hypermedia
Web Technologies Laboratory, School of Computer Science and IT, University of Nottingham, UK
* Corresponding author: duncan{at}codebunny.org
This article introduces Atomic Hypermedia which, unlike traditional hypermedia approaches, does not use the concept of a node. Instead, all content is represented as single character atoms which are placed along an arbitrary number of dimensions. This approach addresses some of the issues with node-based hypermedia. The article describes the basic mechanics of Atomic Data Structure, and how hypermedia behaviours can be obtained.