G.J.Hill@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Gary Hill) (06/04/91)
I am about to look into developing a distributed version of a hypermedia research system I am involved in and I am searching for appropriate references to distributed hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia systems. Any pointers will be gratefully received. E-mail to the address below and if response warrants it I will summarise to the net. Thanks in advance, Gary Hill, gjh@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) gjh@ecs.soton.ac.uk (BITNET)
marti@saturn.ucsc.edu (Marti Atkinson) (06/06/91)
>I am about to look into developing a distributed version of >a hypermedia research system I am involved in and I am searching for >appropriate references to distributed hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia >systems. Any pointers will be gratefully received. Hi Gary... I had trouble replying to you via e-mail, so I'm having to make a public reply. We interested in doing a similar project and have been chipping away at it for at least a year. Altho I can't really recommend what to do, I can give you some pointers as to what to avoid. First, avoid using Hypercard on the Macs. Hypercard keeps all of it's pointers in the Home stack which can't be shared making it impossible to be multi-user or multi-launch over a network. Claris is supposedly working on this problem, but it's been some time and I haven't heard of any solutions. We have been working with IBMs lately. Altho some people love them, we've learned to hate Microchannel machines. We're making some headway, but it's been really slow. What was conceived as a relatively easy project using all off-the-self software/hardware, has been a royal pain in the anatomy. Every time we add or change something in the system, we've had a domino effect with never to be imagined problems being caused with other applications/hardware. Best wishes with your project. I'd be interested in learning how you plan to approach the problem and if you find any solutions. Marti Atkinson University of Calif. at Santa Cruz marti@saturn.ucsc.edu marti@uccrls.BITNET ..!ucbvax!ucscc!saturn!marti
ruseng@Eng.Sun.COM (Carsten Ruseng Jakobsen) (06/07/91)
Gary, You might be interested in contacting kock@iesd.auc.dk and ask for a copy of HyperBase and perhaps his EHTS. During last spring we were 7 people who designed and implemented a networked multiuser hypertext/hyper-media system with support for locking and events. This is not a product but a research proto-type written in gnu C++ which has been interfaced to a number of languages eg. C, emacs-lisp, small-talk. The development and work with HyperBase is described in: [1] U.K. Wiil et al. "Design and Implementation of a HyperBase". Internal Report IR-90-03, The University of Aalborg sept. 1990. [2] U.K. Wiil and K. Oesterbye "Experiences with HyperBase - a multiuser back-end for hypertext applications with emphasis on collaboration support". Technincal Report R-90-38, The University of Aalborg Oct. 1990. Hope this helps /Carsten, ruseng@sun.com