The “HyTime ”
Steven R. Newcomb, Neill A. Kipp, Victoria Taussig Newcomb · Communications of the ACM · 1991
HypermedialTime-based Document Struc:turing Languagehe computer and telecommunications industries have made enormous progress in communications technology standardization in recent years.One effect of good communications technology is that people can concentrate on the information being communicated.More and more people are realizing, however, that being able to send and receive files containing information is not enough.It is desirable that all digital documents explicitly indicate in a standard way what kind of notation is used in them.When an electronic document is created, its author should be able to incorporate active references to other on-line documents ("hyperlinks"l), regardless of the heterogeneity of their notations.In other words, there should be a standard way to make "information about information" interoperable.Such a standard should, among other things:• provide a standard way to express the fact that any number of data objects in any number of different notations are related in some way or for some reason.2• provide a standard way to express the way in which any number of data objects in any number of different notations are intended to be rendered for human perception in space, in time, or in both space and time?~O