The Distributed Link Service A Tool for Publishers, Authors, and Readers

Abstract

The World Wide Web is a distributed servicefor hypermedia document retrieval. Adding a complementary hypermedia link service, from which clients can make enquiries of distributed sets of link databases, provides extra functionality for users: readers gain more subject-specific content-based mediaindependent links, authors gain freedom and flexibility in creating, composing, and reusing their resources, and publishers can repurpose their information assets for different audiences. This paper describes a hypermedia link service that is based entirely on standard Web browsers and servers and is being usedsuccessfully in a spectrum ofWebprojects.