The overall research goal of this project is to provide hypermedia function
ality to information systems (ISs) not enhanced with hypermedia with minima
l or no changes to the ISs. ISs dynamically generate their contents and thu
s require some mapping mechanism to automatically map the generated content
s to hypermedia constructs (nodes, links and link markers) instead of hyper
media links being hard-coded over static contents. No systematic approach e
xists, however, for identifying information relationships and building mapp
ing rules to infer useful links that give users direct access to the ISs' p
rimary functionality, give access to meta-information about IS objects, giv
e access to relationships among information objects and enable annotation a
nd ad hoc (user-declared) linking. This paper contributes a procedure for a
nalyzing ISs and building mapping rules that supplement ISs with hypermedia
support, which results in new ways to view and manage the IS's knowledge a
nd information relationships.