International Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems at HT’02:

Core Concepts & Research Directions

The Event

OHS 2002 has now taken place. There is a separate page about the days events.

Proceedings

The proceedings were published as a technical report at the FernUniversitaet Hagen.

Background

The 2002 Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS2002) was held in conjunction with Hypertext 2002, the premier ACM conference on hypertext and hypermedia.

Previous workshops on Hypermedia Systems development include:

• OHS1 (the 1st OHS Workshop held at ECHT '94 Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1994)
• OHS2 (the 2nd OHS Workshop held at Hypertext '96 Washington, D.C., March 1996)
• OHS3 (the 3rd OHS Workshop held at Hypertext '97 in sunny Southampton, UK, April 1997)
• OHS4 (the 4th OHS Workshop held at Hypertext '98 in Pittsburgh, PA, June 1998)
• OHS5 (the 5th Workshop held at Hypertext '99 in Darmstadt, Germany, February 1999)
• OHS6 (the 6th Workshop held at Hypertext '00 in San Antonio, TX, May 2000)
• OHS7 (the 7th Workshop held at Hypertext '01 in Åarhus, Denmark, August 2001)

This workshop was open to all aspects relevant to Open Hypermedia Systems but with a clear focus on the following topics:

• Core OHS Concepts: "where we were wrong" as well as the usual "where we were right"
• OHS meets the web: How can we influence web-standards. Do we want to make the web more like an OHS or do we want to get OHS' on the web?
• Lessons learned from the application of OHS’: What can systems developers learn from the application of OHS technology to real world problems or novel applications?
• Future of OHS research: What are the major research challenges facing researchers?

Call for Participation

Available as TEXT or HTML

Agenda

The workshop agenda is now available, along with the position papers.

Location

The workshop took place in the Hornbake building (south wing) in the Northwest Quad (map location B6) of the University of Maryland Campus.

Submission Details & Authoring Guidelines

The deadline for submission has now passed.

Submit your position paper not later than May 6th, 2002 encoded as PDF or HTML via e-mail to dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Submitted papers will be refereed; after your presentation at the workshop you will have the possibility to update your paper and submit a final version. All accepted position papers will be published in a technical report at the FernUniversitaet Hagen.

Important Dates

Organisers

David Millard is a Research Fellow in the Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton. He has participated in the Open Hypermedia Workshops and Working Group meetings since 1997, where he was a key contributor to the OHP suite of protocols and the development of the Fundamental Open Hypermedia Model (FOHM).

Joerg Haake is chair for distributed systems at FernUniversitaet Hagen, the German distance learning university. He is actively participating in Hypertext conferences since 1991 and is engaged in OHS workshops since 1996.

Sigi Reich is the head of SunTREC (Sun Technology and Research Excellence Center) at Salzburg Research, Austria. He has participated in the Open Hypermedia Workshops and Working Group meetings since 1996. Over the last few years Sigi Reich has been involved in aspects of interoperability of Open Hypermedia Systems, in particular the development of the Open Hypermedia Navigational Interface (OHP-Nav) and the Fundamental Open Hypermedia Model (FOHM).

Contact:

David Millard
Department of Electronics & Computer Science,
University of Southampton,
Highfield, Southampton,
SO17 1BJ, UK
dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk