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KMS: a distributed hypermedia system for managing knowledge in organizations

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Robert M. Akscyn,

Donald L. McCracken,

Elise A. YoderAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 31, Issue 7

Pages 820 - 835

https://doi.org/10.1145/48511.48513

Published: 01 July 1988 Publication History

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Developers of hypermedia systems face many design issues. The design for KMS, a large-scale hypermedia system for collaborative work, seeks improved user productivity through simplicity of the conceptual data model.

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Reviewer: Jay David Bolter

KMS (Knowledge Management System) is a large-scale distributed hypermedia system, an elaboration of the ZOG system developed at Carnegie-Mellon University. KMS is built upon a simple conceptual data model: frames and links. Each frame may contain text, graphics, and images and may be linked to other frames both hierarchically (in a tree structure) and associatively. Frames may be distributed across an indefinite number of file servers. The emphasis in this paper and in KMS is on the design of the user interface: what functions should be provided for editing and linking frames, how several users can collaborate on a single hypertext, and so on. The design philosophy of KMS is to provide a simple but powerful interface, which the authors compare to a reduced instruction set computer. KMS is a conservative system; for example, it lacks any graphic view of the hypertext structure. Nevertheless, the authors' observations come from fifteen years' experience in designing and testing KMS and its predecessor ZOG. Everyone who has a professional interest in hypertext and hypermedia should read this paper.

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July 1988

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DOI:10.1145/48511

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