iServer - Cross-Media Link Server

The iServer platform supports the integration of cross-media resources based on the resource-selector-link (RSL) model. iServer not only enables the definition links between different types of digital media, but can also be used for integrating physical and digital resources.

 

RSL Model

Figure 1: RSL hypermedia metamodel

 

The RSL model introduces the abstract concepts of resources, selectors and links and can be extended for specific types of resources (e.g. interactive paper, HTML pages or movie clips). By implementing media-specific resource and selector instances, any new type of media can be integrated. The framework has been used within the European Paper++ and PaperWorks projects for integrating physical paper and digital content and is the main component of our interactive paper infrastructure. Further, we are developing plug-ins for XHTML documents, movie clips and sound files. The sharing of link knowledge has been investigated in a distributed iServer version based on peer-to-peer concepts.

 

 

Related Publications

Year Publication Title
2021 Back to the Future: Bringing Original Hypermedia and Cross-Media Concepts to Modern Desktop Environments
2021 Interview with Beat Signer
2020 User-driven Design Guidelines for the Authoring of Cross-Device and Internet of Things Applications
2019 Towards Cross-Media Information Spaces and Architectures
2019 Enhanced Document Retrieval and Discovery Based on a Combination of Implicit and Explicit Document Relationships
2018 A Metamodel and Prototype for Fluid Document Formats
2018 An Analysis of Cross-Document Linking Mechanisms
2018 Cross-Media Document Linking and Navigation
2017 Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces
2016 A Dynamically Extensible Cross-Document Link Service
2015 A Dynamically Extensible Open Cross-Document Link Service
2014 Open Cross-Document Linking and Browsing based on a Visual Plug-in Architecture
2014 Towards a Conceptual Framework and Metamodel for Context-aware Personal Cross-Media Information Management Systems
2011 A Model and Architecture for Open Cross-Media Annotation and Link Services
2011 An Extensible Digital Ink Segmentation and Classification Framework for Natural Notetaking
2011 PaperSketch: A Paper-Digital Collaborative Remote Sketching Tool
2010 What is Wrong with Digital Documents? A Conceptual Model for Structural Cross-Media Content Composition and Reuse
2009 A Framework for Link Sharing in Cooperative Cross-Media Information Spaces
2009 A Peer-to-Peer-based Distributed Link Service Architecture
2009 Active Components as a Method for Coupling Data and Services - A Database-Driven Application Development Process
2009 An Architecture for Open Cross-Media Annotation Services
2009 Collaborative Ad-hoc Information Sharing in Cross-Media Information Environments
2008 A Framework for Developing Pervasive Cross-Media Applications based on Physical Hypermedia and Active Components
2008 An Extensible Framework for Personal Cross-Media Information Management
2007 As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems
2007 Context-Aware Platform for Mobile Data Management
2007 Interactive Paper as a Mobile Client for a Multi-Channel Web Information System
2007 Producing Interactive Paper Documents based on Multi-Channel Content Publishing
2006 Paper-Based Mobile Access to Databases
2005 A Framework for Cross-media Information Management
2005 Experimental Platform for Mobile Information Systems
2005 Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces
2005 Information Server for Highly-Connected Cross-Media Publishing
2003 Multi-Layered Cross-Media Linking
2003 Putting the Gloss on Paper: A Framework for Cross-Media Annotation

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