OHRA: Towards an Open Hypermedia Reference Architecture and a Migration Path for Existing Systems
Authors
Stuart Goose
Multimedia and Video Technology Group, Siemens Corporate Research Inc.
Andy Lewis
Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Hugh Davis
Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Abstract
The open hypermedia research community recognised that to make progress on defining a protocol to enable third party applications to access open link services, it was necessary to first establish a reference architecture for open hypermedia systems upon which to base discussions. In this paper we argue that there is a need to extend yet further the scope of these requirements. We propose an overall architecture for the integration of existing open hypermedia systems in a distributed and collaborative model, and provide a clear evolution path towards achieving this goal.
