HyperWave - The Next Generation Web Solution

Hermann Maurer

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
- 1.1 General
- 1.2 Audience of this book
- 1.3 How to use this book
- 1.4 Hyper-G: How does it differ from WWW and Gopher?
- 1.5 Hyper-G: More than an information presentation system
- 1.6 Should you continue reading this book?
- 1.7 Further reading
2 Information systems and the Internet
- 2.1 The Internet
  - 2.1.1 Internet protocols
  - 2.1.2 Internet addresses
- 2.2 Basic Internet services: remote login, file transfer, Email, and Network News
- 2.3 Archie
- 2.4 WAIS
- 2.5 The Internet Gopher
- 2.6 The World Wide Web
- 2.7 Hyper-G
- 2.8 Further reading
3 Hypermedia systems
- 3.1 What is hypertext and hypermedia?
- 3.2 The origins of hypermedia
- 3.3 Types of hypermedia system
- 3.4 When to use hypermedia
- 3.5 Navigating hyperspace
- 3.6 Further reading
4 Applications of hypermedia systems
- 4.1 Information presentation
- 4.2 Beyond information presentation
- 4.3 Further reading
5 Introducing Hyper-G
- 5.1 Hyper-G as Web server
- 5.2 Hyper-G clients
- 5.3 Further reading
6 Gopher: The first revolution
- 6.1 Background
- 6.2 Early CWISs and Gopher
- 6.3 Problems with CWISs
- 6.4 Gopher's design goals
  - 6.4.1 Client/server architecture
  - 6.4.2 Distributed servers
  - 6.4.3 Links between servers
- 6.5 Searching in Gopherspace
- 6.6 Veronica
- 6.7 Putting Gopher into perspective
- 6.8 Evolution to Gopher+
- 6.9 User interface metaphors
- 6.10 Problems with current information systems
- 6.11 Conclusions
- 6.12 Further Reading
7 World Wide Web: A first plateau
- 7.1 World Wide Web history
- 7.2 The main concepts behind WWW
- 7.3 WWW servers
- 7.4 CGI-Scripts: A way to improve WWW
- 7.5 Further reading
8 The need for second-generation hypermedia systems
- 8.1 Getting lost in hyperspace
- 8.2 Authoring in the large
  - 8.2.1 The `essay problem'
  - 8.2.2 Linking considered harmful
  - 8.2.3 Link creation
  - 8.2.4 Version control
  - 8.2.5 Authentication and access control
  - 8.2.6 Separating content and presentation
- 8.3 Architectural considerations
- 8.4 Further reading
9 The design of Hyper-G
- 9.1 The history of the Hyper-G project
- 9.2 Structured hypermedia
- 9.3 Searching
- 9.4 Links separated from documents
- 9.5 Multi-user, multi-author system
- 9.6 Client-server architecture
- 9.7 Further reading
10 The Hyper-G server
- 10.1 Object IDs, objects and documents
- 10.2 The server architecture
- 10.3 Protocol conversion layer
- 10.4 Session layer (hgserver)
- 10.5 Database layer
- 10.6 Maintaining referential integrity
- 10.7 Performance issues
- 10.8 Further reading
11 Inside Hyper-G
- 11.1 The Hyper-G Data Model
  - 11.1.1 Relations
  - 11.1.2 Class hierarchy
- 11.2 Access permissions
  - 11.2.1 Examples
- 11.3 Accounting, billing and licensing
- 11.4 Replication
- 11.5 Further reading
12 Hyper-G and gateways to external databases
- 12.1 Importance of gateways
  - 12.1.1 Design considerations of a gateway
  - 12.1.2 Common approaches to gateway design
- 12.2 SQL gateway to databases in Hyper-G
- 12.3 Gateway to videotex systems
- 12.4 Further reading
13 Hyper-G as a standalone server
- 13.1 The standalone server: An introduction
- 13.2 Applications of local databases
- 13.3 Accessing a local database
- 13.4 How the standalone server differs from the Hyper-G server
- 13.5 Creation of a local database
  - 13.5.1 Tools for creating local databases
- 13.6 Limitations
- 13.7 Future plans
- 13.8 CD-ROM production: Hints and pitfalls
- 13.9 Further reading
14 Hyper-G server installation, maintenance and administration
- 14.1 System requirements
  - 14.1.1 Space requirements
- 14.2 Server installation
- 14.3 Finishing the installation and starting the server
- 14.4 Server configuration
- 14.5 Environment variables
- 14.6 WWW gateway environment variables
- 14.7 Server maintenance
  - 14.7.1 Backup and restore
- 14.8 Server administration
  - 14.8.1 User accounts
  - 14.8.2 User groups
- 14.9 Troubleshooting
- 14.10 Further reading
15 Using Harmony
- 15.1 Browsing collections, clusters and documents
- 15.2 Harmony's document viewers and hyperlink navigation
  - 15.2.1 The Harmony Text Viewer
  - 15.2.2 The Harmony Image Viewer
  - 15.2.3 The Harmony Film Player
  - 15.2.4 The Harmony Audio Player
  - 15.2.5 The Harmony PostScript Viewer
  - 15.2.6 The Harmony VRweb 3D Viewer
  - 15.2.7 Harmony Telnet sessions
- 15.3 The Harmony Local Map
- 15.4 Searching in Harmony
- 15.5 Harmony's History Browser
- 15.6 Harmony for WWW and Gopher sites
- 15.7 Harmony system functions
- 15.8 Harmony options and preferences
- 15.9 System status and communication with other users
- 15.10 The Harmony Information Landscape
- 15.11 Further reading
16 Installing and configuring Harmony
- 16.1 The architecture of Harmony
- 16.2 Installing Harmony
- 16.3 Configuring Harmony
- 16.4 Further reading
17 Using the Amadeus client
- 17.1 Navigation and browsing
- 17.2 Viewer and player descriptions
- 17.3 Outlook
- 17.4 Further reading
18 Technical description of Amadeus
- 18.1 Installation of Amadeus
- 18.2 Configuration files and command line parameters
  - 18.2.1 Command line options
  - 18.2.2 The amadeus.ini file
- 18.3 Technical implementation
- 18.4 Standalone viewers
  - 18.4.1 The standalone PostScript Viewer
  - 18.4.2 The standalone VRML Viewer
- 18.5 Further reading
19 Other Hyper-G clients
- 19.1 Hyper-G Terminal Viewer
- 19.2 Easy: The public terminal viewer
- 19.3 Hyper-G and Macintosh
  - 19.3.1 Native Hyper-G clients for the Macintosh
  - 19.3.2 Using WWW clients
20 Hyper-G and WWW
- 20.1 Accessing Hyper-G servers with WWW clients
- 20.2 The server gateway
- 20.3 Migration to Hyper-G
- 20.4 Hyper-G as a powerful WWW server
- 20.5 Further reading
21 Hyper-G and Gopher
- 21.1 Accessing Gopher servers with Hyper-G
- 21.2 Accessing Hyper-G servers with Gopher clients
- 21.3 Migration to Hyper-G
  - 21.3.1 Gopher+ meta-information
  - 21.3.2 The loadgopher tool
- 21.4 Further reading
22 Structuring information using Hyper-G
- 22.1 Users and user groups
- 22.2 Collection hierarchies
- 22.3 Access permissions
- 22.4 Clusters
  - 22.4.1 Multimedia documents
  - 22.4.2 Multilingual documents
- 22.5 Documents
- 22.6 CGI objects and programs
- 22.7 Remote objects
  - 22.7.1 Links to other Hyper-G servers
  - 22.7.2 Links to FTP, Gopher, WWW and WAIS servers
- 22.8 Hyperlinks
- 22.9 Home collections
  - 22.9.1 Creating home collections
  - 22.9.2 Using home collections
- 22.10 Advanced structuring
- 22.11 Examples of hypermedia applications
- 22.12 Further reading
23 Authoring with Harmony
- 23.1 Object and document creation
- 23.2 Document editing
  - 23.2.1 Editing text documents
  - 23.2.2 Editing image documents
- 23.3 Modifying attributes
- 23.4 Interactive link editing
- 23.5 Structure editing
  - 23.5.1 Moving objects
  - 23.5.2 Copying objects
- 23.6 Deleting objects
- 23.7 Annotations
- 23.8 Further reading
24 Authoring with Amadeus
- 24.1 Collection and document handling
- 24.2 Editing text documents with the HTF word template
  - 24.2.1 Installation
  - 24.2.2 Usage
- 24.3 Creating links
- 24.4 Deleting links
- 24.5 Managing Hyper-G attributes
25 Database manipulation tools
- 25.1 Automated hypermedia authoring
- 25.2 Offline Hyper-G database tools
- 25.3 hifimport and hifexport
- 25.4 Further reading
26 Hyper-G and the PC-Library
- 26.1 General
  - 26.1.1 Features
  - 26.1.2 Published titles
- 26.2 The PC-Library as part of a general electronic $library$
- 26.3 Integration with other programs
- 26.4 The PC-Library and Hyper-G
- 26.5 PC-Library Version 2
- 26.6 Further reading
27 Hyper-G and HM-Card
- 27.1 What is HM-Card?
- 27.2 HM-Card: An introduction
- 27.3 HM-Card: Terminology and functionality
- 27.4 Creating multimedia applications
- 27.5 Organizing a courseware library with the help of Hyper-G
- 27.4 Further reading
28 Hyper-G and electronic publishing
- 28.1 Types of literature
- 28.2 Document formats for electronic publishing
- 28.3 Submissions and electronic refereeing
- 28.4 Preparing material for electronic publishing
- 28.5 Journals and books published with Hyper-G
- 28.6 Further reading
29 Some Web applications based on Hyper-G
- 29.1 Hyper-G for teaching, training and support
- 29.2 Hyper-G in museums and exhibitions
- 29.3 Hyper-G for conference support
- 29.4 Hyper-G as a platform for virtual communities
- 29.5 Hyper-G as a general information system
  - 29.5.1 Example: TUGinfo - A campus information system
- 29.6 Hyper-G in entertainment and gambling casino settings
- 29.7 Further reading
30 Hyper-G and security
- 30.1 Introduction
- 30.2 S-HTTP, SHEN, SSL, PCT
- 30.3 PGP and PEM/MOSS
- 30.4 Electronic commerce
- 30.5 Summary
- 30.6 Further reading
31 The future
- 31.1 More document formats
- 31.2 Gateways
- 31.3 Hyper-G as a documentation management system
- 31.4 Communication and collaboration
- 31.5 Electronic libraries and teaching support
- 31.6 Security and billing
- 31.7 Miscellaneous improvements
- 31.8 Global search
- 31.9 Migration to future systems
- 31.10 Further reading
A Online Resources
- A.1 Documentation
- A.2 Software
- A.3 Communication
B About the CD-ROM
- B.1 Contents of the CD-ROM
- B.2 Structure of the CD-ROM
C The Hyper-G Consortium
- C.1 Background
- C.2 History
- C.3 How the Hyper-G Consortium (HGC) works
- C.4 Contact addresses and events
- C.5 List of current members and sponsors
D The Web Society
- D.1 Motivation for the foundation of the the Web Society
- D.2 Executive council and other officers
- D.3 Aims of the Web Society
- D.4 Concrete actions of the Web Society
- D.5 Member services and member dues
- D.6 From the credo of Web Society members
E Object attributes and the Hyper-G Interchange Format
- E.1 Object attributes
- E.2 The Hyper-G Interchange Format
- E.3 Further reading
F Hyper-G Client-Server Protocol (HG-CSP)
- F.1 Introduction
  - F.1.1 Status of this appendix
  - F.1.2 Glossary
- F.2 An overview of the protocol
  - F.2.1 Opening and closing the connection
  - F.2.2 Message format
- F.3 Description of messages
- F.4 Error codes
- F.5 An example C client
G SyncScript commands
- G.1 Object types
- G.2 Description of commands for all object types
- G.3 Description of commands for IMG and BGR objects
  - G.3.1 SetMode
  - G.3.2 ScrollTo
- G.4 Description of commands for SND and VID objects
- G.5 Description of commands for LBL objects
- G.6 Description of commands without object
- G.7 Further commands
H The authors
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