The goal of this research is to provide hypermedia
functionality to all information systems. In this paper I
present the architecture of a system-level hypermedia
engine, designed both to manage fill hypermedia functionality
for an information system and to bind interface-oriented
âfront-end" systems with separate computation-oriented
"back-end "systems. The engine dynamically superimposes
a hypermedia representation over a back-end
application's knowledge components and processes. I
then describe a set of minimal requirements for integrating
the hypermedia engine. The more sophisticated and cooperative
the information system, the higher the level of hypermedia
support the engine will provide.Information Systems Working Papers Serie