Toward hypermedia support for information relationship management

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.