Migrating from paper-based to electronic documentation is a task that needs careful planning. Electronic texts offer new ways to store, retrieve, update, and cross-link information. Hypermedia documents, in which texts are cross-linked via keywords and in which audio and video files may also be integrated, require new levels of organization and strict discipline from authors, editors, and managers. As documents become "living" their document managers must control access, privileges, interconnections, segmentation, and flexibility for different readers. This book introduces and surveys these new developments. Based on a wealth of experience in large hypermedia projects, it provides a step-by-step guide to all aspects of hypermedia development, from strategic decision-making to editing formats and production methods.

I Hypermedia Enterprises.- 1 Hypermedia Production Scenarios.- 2 Market-Driven Scenario Elements.- 3 Sales and Royalties.- 4 The Publishing Corporation Case.- II Producing Hypermedia.- 5 Popular Formats.- 6 Editing.- 7 Authoring.- 8 Preparing Textual Material.- 9 Creating Hypertext.- 10 Picture, Sound, and Video Resources.- 11 Managing Hypermedia Documents.- 12 Popular Multimedia Applications.- 13 Recipes.- III Navigational Support.- 14 Graph Computation in Structuring Hypermedia.- 15 Graphical Display of Concept Maps.- 16 Rule-Based Navigation in Hypermedia Systems.- 17 Calculating a Path.- IV Seven Hypermedia Project Cases.- Case I Publishers' Documentation Support System.- Case II Genealogical Research Support.- Case III Newspaper Archiving and Delivery on CD-ROM.- Case IV Document Maintenance via CD-I.- Case V Preparing Encyclopedias for CD-ROM.- Case VI Managing Instructional Material.- Case VII Product Catalogues for Delivery on Demand.- PartV Appendices Appendix A. References.- SGML.- Graphical Display of Two-Dimensional Concept Maps.- General.- Deliverables by the COSYS Project.- Appendix B. Word Translation Macros.- Appendix C. Glossary.- Appendix D. First Demonstrator Case Description.- Top View.- Zooming.- Browsing.- Pruning.- Inside View.- Example.- Appendix E. Second Demonstrator Case Description.- General information.- Use.- Opening Texts.- Opening Pictures.- Opening an Overview.- Selecting a Database.- Opening an Article from a Text.- Opening an Overview from a Text.- Icons.- Hotspots.- Overviews.- Overview Windows.- Selecting and Deselecting Nodes.- Dragging a Node.- Opening an Overview from Another Overview.- Overview Icons.- Menus.- Dialogue Change Settings.- Appendix F. TextVision-3D.- Adding New Concepts.- Adding Relations.- XVI Table of Contents.-Deleting Relations.- Selecting Concepts and Relations.- Moving Concepts.- Revising to Indegree.- Revising to Outdegree.- Text Windows.- Subterm View.- Superterm View.- Text View.- Rotating the Network.- Appendix G. Prolog Interpretation of SGML Documents.- Appendix H. SGML ?RTF Conversion.- CPART.G.- F.G.- GRAMMAR.G.- TOKENDEF.G.- Appendix I. Interesting FTP and WWW Sites.- FTP Sites.- WWW Sites.- About the Authors.- Figures and Tables.