Combining Generality and Specificity in Generating Hypermedia Interfaces for Semantically Annotated Repositories

Hera and Topia are separate research implementations for generating hypermedia presentations from media repositories annotated with Semantic Web technologies. They potentially define two cooperating components of a larger system. Topia creates a general, high-level outline or story board, while Hera can be used to fill in the details and make the smaller-scale components have a rich and engaging presentation. This paper explores combining Topia and Hera, describing along the way the resulting issues for providing hypermedia interfaces to semantic annotations. Categories & Subject Descriptors H.1 [Information Systems]: Models and principles; H.5.4, H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation (e.g., HCI) Hypertext/Hypermedia Architectures, Navigation; Multimedia Information Systems Hypertext navigation and maps, Evaluation/methodology; I.2.4 [Artificial Intelligence]: Knowledge representation formalisms and methods; D.2.2 [Software Engineering]: Design tools and techniques; I.7.2 [Document and Text Processing]: Document Preparation Hypertext/hypermedia, Markup languages, Multi/mixed media, Standards