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

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Leslie Carr,

David De Roure,

Wendy Hall,

Gary HillAuthors Info & Claims

WWW4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 647 - 656

https://doi.org/10.1145/3592626.3592678

Published: 11 December 1995 Publication History

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The World Wide Web is a distributed service for 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 media-independent 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 used successfully in a spectrum of Web projects.

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WWW4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on World Wide Web

December 1995

737 pages

ISBN:1565921690

DOI:10.1145/3592626

Conference Chairs:
Albert Vezza
MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science
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Ira Goldstein
OSF-Research Institute
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Tim Berners-Lee
MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 11 December 1995

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