The hypermedia autbloring research toolkit (HART)

A major obstacle hindering the advancement and commercial acceptance of hypermedia is the cow of converting paper based information into hypermedia form. The Hypermedia Authoring Research Tcdkit (HART) Wm developed to support the human editor during this media-to-hypermedia conversion process. The tool's goal is to help improve the correctness and completeness of the hypermedia database, as well as reduce the media-to-hypermedia conversion cost. We believe it is not possible to properly convert medlia to hypermedia without the participation of a human editor during the transformation. It is therefore necessmy to develop tools to assist the human during this process. By reducing the overhead associated with the physical management of the hyper-database construction, the subject specialist is better able to concentrate on the information content. Support is provided in two basic ways: By providing procedural guidance. From our experience constructing hypermedia systems we have developed an efficient process for this media-tohypermedia transformation. By providing intelligent assistance. At each phase in the transformation the system can suggest tiiely nodes, key phrases, index values, anchors, and IIinks to the editor. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copyright is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or specific permission. The project's research focus is to identify the most effective methodologies to assist the human editor transform linear text, images and video into hypermedia structure.