Linking in a Global Information Architecture
Karen R. Sollins, Jeffrey R. Van Dyke · 1995
As network-based applications and knowledge-based systems become more prevalent and useful, it will become increasingly important to provide a common, long-lived model of the infrastructure on top of which such applications will exist. Not only does the longevity and evolvability of the infrastructure have a direct impact on the value of the information in it, but also the provisioning of a meta-level infrastructure capable of defining relationships among the pieces of information become increasingly important. In this paper, we first examine a general, flexible information architecture and then enhance it with an extensible, simple model of linking, recommended as a component of the substrate of network-based applications and knowledge-based systems of the future.