Hypermedia research directions: An infrastructure perspective

This paper offers a perspective on the directions in which hypermedia infra structure research will move in the next several years. The perspective is based on the authors' experiences and insights from a decade of active part icipation in this research area. After a review of hypermedia infrastructur e research, the paper focuses on two particular threads of such research na med "multiple open services" and "structural computing". We believe that th ese threads show much promise for the future.