Workshop on Virtual Documents,
Hypertext Functionality and the Web

at the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference

Tuesday May 11, 1999 - Toronto, Canada

http://www.cs.unibo.it/~fabio/VD99/index.html

Goals and Approach

The goal of this workshop, HTF/VD1, has been to discuss the role of hypertext functionality for virtual documents on the Web. Participants contributed positions or scenarios that clarified either how the Web can be improved to support more systems based on sophisticated hypertext or virtual documents and/or how HTF and VD models can be added to the Web.

Position papers

• Introduction - Maria Milosavljevic, Fabio Vitali, and Carolyn Watters
• Research Issues for Virtual Documents - Carolyn Watters and Michael Shepherd
• Navigational Context Design Pattern: An Implementation for Web Development - Flávio Azevedo de Lima, R. T. Price
• The MIRADOR project - Sheila Rock, Alison Cawsey, Patrick McAndrew, and Diana Bental
• Conceptual Documents and Hypertext Documents are two Different Forms of Virtual Document - Sylvie Ranwez and Michel Crampes
• When Virtual Documents Meet the Real World - Stephen J. Green, Maria Milosavljevic, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris
• A Key for Enhanced Hypertext Functionality and Virtual Documents: Knowledge - Philippe Martin and Peter Eklund
• A Modular Framework for the Creation of Dynamic Documents - Jšrg Caumanns
• The value-adding functionality of Web documents - Kevin Crowston and Marie Williams
• Automated Hypermedia Support for the Virtual Documents Generated by Analytical Applications - Michael Bieber, Roberto Galnares

Other resources

• The original Call for Paper
• The Powerpoint slides at the workshop
  • Presentations: Sylvie Ranwez, Stephen Green, Kevin Crowston
  • Breakout sessions: Carolyn's group, and Fabio's group.
  • Workshop summary
• The Proceedings as a single PDF file
• The Proceedings as an "University of Bologna - Laboratory for Computer Science Research Technical Report"

Past workshops

There have been a series of previous Hypertext Functionality (HTF) workshops, which began in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext Conferences. The first three HTF workshops concentrated on the identification and organization of hypertext functionalities that could form the core of hypertext systems in a wide variety of application areas. HTF4 examined issues related to the incorporation of advanced hypertext functionality in web-based applications. HTF5, held in conjunction with the ICSE conference in Kyoto, May 1998, examined the impact of HTF on software engineering. There have also been several workshops on the use of adaptive and dynamic hypertext techniques, such as the 2nd Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, held in conjunction with the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedi, 20-24 June 1998, the Workshop on Reuse of Web-based Information and 2nd Flexible Hypertext Workshop, held in conjunction with the 7th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW7). Brisbane, Australia. April 1998, the Flexible Hypertext Workshop, held at the Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference (Hypertext'97), the Intelligent educational systems on the World-Wide Web, held in conjunction with the 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED 97), the Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web, held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on User Modeling (UM'97), the Workshop on User Modelling for Information Filtering on the World Wide Web, held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on User Modeling (UM'96), and the Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling (UM'94). The idea for a workshop focusing on Virtual Documents arose at WWW7 because of the realization of commonalities in focus and interests.

Organizers

Maria Milosavlejevic, Fabio Vitali, Carolyn Watters

Program Committee

Helen Ashman, Michael Bieber, Peter Brusilovsky, Jon Oberlander, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Franois Paradis