HyperSea: towards a spatial hypertext environment for web 2.0 content

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we present HyperSea, an environment for importing, organizing and interacting with web 2.0 content. The environment is based mainly on previous research on hypertext systems, spatial hypertext and it tries to overcome presentation limitations of today's popular web 2.0 applications. Content is structured as islands and nodes which may be interlinked and characterized by various levels of visual cues, according to its type and origin. As the resulting content is structured, HyperSea may support alternative views and search operations over it. We present an extensive case-study for illustrating functionality and we organize some future work.

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Index Terms

• Information systems

  • Information systems applications

    • Multimedia information systems