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HM-Card: A new hypermedia authoring system

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HM-Card is a novel hypermedia authoring and presentation system for the development and use of a diverse range of hypermedia applications on PCs/MS-Windows. It is the first tool to implement the HM data model, a recent approach to provide a sound theoretical basis for the sophisticated structuring and navigating of hypermedia databases. However, in this paper we only cover the HM data model as the underlying theoretical foundation for the actual authoring system HM-Card. HM-Card offers an extensive set of functional and structural authoring elements, such as animations, question/answer dialogs, transparent import of external documents, and execution of other MS-Windows applications. The user-interface of HM-Card is intended to support rapid prototyping and authoring of complex hypermedia applications. Finished HM-Card applications can be run as stand-alone systems, used in MS-Windows' OLE (Object Linking and Embedding concept) clients, as well as be integrated as modules into large-scale distributed hypermedia systems.

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    Hermann Maurer & Nick Scherbakov

  2. HyperMedia Unit (HMU), Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Achim Schneider

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Maurer, H., Scherbakov, N. & Schneider, A. HM-Card: A new hypermedia authoring system. Multimed Tools Appl 1, 305–326 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01215881

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