Motivations. - 1. 1 Introduction. - 1. 2 How We Started. - 1. 3 Why Microcosm?. - 1. 4 The Vision. - A Brief History of Hypermedia. - 2. 1 Introduction. - 2. 2 The Original Vision. - 2. 3 Hypermedia for Personal Computers. - 2. 4 Standards for Hypertext Systems and Information Exchange. - 2. 5 Hypertext on the Internet. - 2. 6 Open Hypermedia Systems and Link Services. - 2. 7 Conclusions. - Implementing Open Hypermedia: Microcosm. - 3. 1 Introduction. - 3. 2 Overview. - 3. 3 The Link Service Model. - 3. 4 Interacting with the Information: Viewers. - 3. 5 Processing the Information: Filters. - 3. 6 Linking the Information: Creating Links. - 3. 7 Storing the Information: Document Management. - 3. 8 Controlling the Information: The Registry. - 3. 9 Finding the Information. - 3. 10 Summary. - Making Open Hypermedia Work. - 4. 1 Introduction. - 4. 2 Working with Third Party Applications. - 4. 3 Working with Multimedia. - 4. 4 Working with Changeable Data. - Authoring with Open Hypermedia. - 5. 1 Introduction. - 5. 2 General Principles: Building a Resource-Base. - 5. 3 Authoring Applications within a Resource-Base. - 5. 4 Applications. - 5. 5 Summary. - Working with the Web and Distributed Systems. - 6. 1 Introduction. - 6. 2 Accessing the Web from Microcosm. - 6. 3 Exporting Microcosm Datasets to the Web. - 6. 4 Putting Microcosm into the Web. - 6. 5 Distributed Microcosm. - The Future. - 7. 1 Introduction. - 7. 2 Concept Authoring and CSCW. - 7. 3 Mavis. - 7. 4 Agents. - 7. 5 Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing. - 7. 6 Ending the Tyranny of the Button. - 7. 7 Conclusions. - Glossary of Microcosm Terms. - A: A Declarative Model for Microcosm. - B: Microcosm 3. 1. 1: The Commercial Version. Language: English