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The molhado hypertext versioning system

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Tien N. Nguyen,

Ethan V. Munson,

John T. BoylandAuthors Info & Claims

HYPERTEXT '04: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

Pages 185 - 194

https://doi.org/10.1145/1012807.1012859

Published: 09 August 2004 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes Molhado, a hypertext versioning and software configuration management system that is distinguished from previous systems by its flexible product versioning and structural configuration management model. The model enables a unified versioning framework for atomic and composite software artifacts, and hypermedia structures among them in a fine-grained manner at the logical level. Hypermedia structures are managed separately from documents' contents. Molhado explicitly represents hyperlinks, allowing them to be browsed, visualized, and systematically analyzed. Molhado not only versions complex hypermedia structures (e.g., multi links), but also supports versioning of individual hyperlinks. This paper focuses on Molhado's hypertext versioning and its use in the Software Concordance environment to manage the evolution of a software project and hypermedia structures.

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