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Almost all hypertext systems do not use DBMS as their information base. This paper describes a prototype, called InterSect, which is a hypertext system integrated with an object oriented database. The data model of InterSect is an object oriented hypertext data model. This model will be described by using Z specification language. There are three main features of the InterSect approach. First InterSect is designed in a fully object oriented way. Second, some important mechanisms such as versioning and composition of the next generation hypertext systems are supported by InterSect. Third, InterSect supports a conventional database view together with a hypertext view of the database contents. We will use as an example the software documentation environment in order to illustrate these characteristics of InterSect.
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Wang, B., Hitchcock, P., Holden, T. (1993). An object oriented database approach for supporting hypertext. In: Rolland, C., Bodart, F., Cauvet, C. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 685. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56777-1_32
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