A HYPERMEDIA VERSION CONTROL FRAMEWORK

The areas of application of hypermedia technology, combined with the c apabilities that hypermedia provides for manipulating structure, creat e an environment in which version control is very important. A hyperme dia version control framework has been designed to specifically addres s the version control problem in open hypermedia environments. One of the primary distinctions of the framework is the partitioning of hyper media version control functionality into intrinsic and application-spe cific categories. The version control framework has been used as a mod el for the design of version control services for a hyperbase manageme nt system that provides complete version support for both data and str uctural entities. In addition to serving as a version control model fo r open hypermedia environments, the framework offers a clarifying and unifying context in which to examine the issues of version control in hypermedia.