The authoring and delivery challenges for industrial strength hypermedia

As the amount of information required by manufacturing increases, the management of information resources is becoming a critical issue. Hypermedia systems are considered one solution to this problem as they provide a means for representing higher level relationships between the underlying information. However, hypermedia authoring in the large requires new authoring and delivery methodologies if it is to become a feasible option in the future. The paper discusses new approaches for building, structuring, and delivering very large-scale hypermedia applications.