questions

2. information (hyper) spaces

• (*) What factors play a role in the development of multimedia information systems? What research issues are there? When do you expect the major problems to be solved?

• Define the notion of information spaces?
• Indicate how multimedia objects may be placed (and queried for) in an information (hyper) space?
• Characterize the notion of hypermedia.

• Discuss which developments make a large scale application of multimedia information systems possible.
• Give a characterization of an object, a query and a clue in an information space.
• Describe the Dexter Hypertext Reference Model.
• Give a description of the Amsterdam Hypermedia Model.

draft version 1 (16/5/2003)