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Our project is studying the process by which groups of individuals work together to build large, complex structures of ideas and is building a distributed hypermedia system to support that process. This description focuses on the hypermedia data management system--which we call a graph server--we are developing to support groups of collaborators working on individual workstations within a distributed computing environment. The discussion covers the graph- based data model provided by the server to client hypermedia programs as well as the architecture of the system. A number of research issues are raised and discussed in context including: partitioning the hypermedia graph; an open, extensible architecture for applications; composite objects; anchored links; and the integrity, consistency, and completeness of the artifact as a whole. |
