A View Based Methodology for Designing Hypermedia Applications

Abstract

Hypermedia extends the hypertext paradigm into multimedia. Recently, many enterprises have attempted to incorporate hypermedia functionality into their diverse range of business applications such as decision support systems, document management, software management, and team collaboration. This paper presents a methodology for designing hypermedia applications based on users’ views. In designing hypermedia applications, view support is highly desirable. The methodology consists of five phases: requirement analysis, data modeling, view design, navigational design and mapping. Views are generated from the entity-relationship diagram, and used for subsequent navigational and mapping design. This methodology is especially effective for integrating enterprise databases with distributed hypermedia systems on the Internet.