Using the Hyper-G Authoring Environment to Create Web Information
Keith Andrews, Frank Kappe
Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM)
Graz University of Technology, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
{kandrews,fkappe}@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
Description of Demonstration
This demonstration is supposed to complement our paper entitled
"Serving Information to the Web with Hyper-G". We will show Harmony (the
UNIX/X11 client for Hyper-G) and running a local Hyper-G
server. Emphasis is on demonstration of the authoring capabilities of
Harmony, and to show how the features provided by Hyper-G's link
database help the author in preparation of a consistent information
space.
In particular, we will demonstrate:
- How to interactively insert multimedia documents into the
collection hierarchy.
- How to interactively edit links and place inline images.
- How link consistency is maintained when removing or moving a
document.
- How to manipulate the collection hierarchy (upper left of Figure 1).
- How Harmony's Local Map eases maintenace of the link
structure (lower left of Figure 1)
- How to define multilingual documents and multimedia document
clusters (right and center of Figure 1)
- How all this looks when seen from a Web client (Figure 2).
- Other nice features of Hyper-G and Harmony, e.g. Harmony's
3D Information Landscape (Figure 3).
Figure 1: Harmony's Collection Browser,
Local Map, and Document Viewers
Figure 2: Acessing a Hyper-G Server with Mosaic
Figure 3: Harmony's 3D Information Landscape and Film Player