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A novel approach for hypermedia authoring-in-the-large is presented. It combines class with instance based nodes and links descriptions in an object oriented framework. This framework includes a class based approach for building high level descriptions of hypermedia applications, and an instance based approach for defining nodes relationships, appearance and behaviour. The proposal uses a software engineering view for hypermedia authoring (including analysis, design and implementation activities) and tries to complement existing model based approaches.
In this paper, the outstanding features of this approach are described together with a comparison with other related work; some issues regarding the implementation of tools for supporting this approach are briefly described, together with some guidelines for hand-craft translation to card-based systems (like Hypercard). Finally, some further work in this model is discussed.
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Bibbó, L., Díaz, A., Gordillo, S., Rossi, G. (1994). Combining Instance and Class-Based Descriptions in Hypermedia Authoring. In: Baeza-Yates, R. (eds) Computer Science 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9805-0_39
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