Current practice and shortcomings of handling digital hypermedia documents on the Internet are investigated. The WebPack format is de ned to eliminate some of these shortcomings. The structure and operations of this new container format are discussed, and the use of WebPack in document management is explained.

Some document genres contain a large number of figures. This position paper outlines approaches to diagram summarization that can augment the many well-developed techniques of text summarization. We discuss figures as surrogates for entire documents, thumbnails, extraction, the relations between text and figures as well as how automation might be achieved. The focus is on diagrams (line drawing...

Most electronic documents have a predefined structure, and a visualization of a document is adjusted to this structure. In many cases, however, it is desirable to have different visual representations of the document. This becomes especially important if there is additional information available, for instance, annotations. This paper introduces Magic Pages, a user interface technique that suppo...