ABSTRACT
Hypermedia is well known as a simple and natural extension of multimedia and hypertext. Multimedia provides the richness in data types that facilitates flexibility in expressing information, while hypertext provides a control structure that supports an elegant way of navigating through this data in a content-based manner. The power of hypermedia results from merging both techniques. Providing those extended features on the users desktop environment and in consequence, combining them with available communication infrastructure to allow for distributed working, will be the next step into the future. To integrate hypermedia and messaging is the goal of our work. The given approach allows to use existing messaging systems to transport hypermedia information without changes to message transport services.
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