2 What is HYPERTEXT and HYPERMEDIA?

2.5 Hypermedia Examples

Reading about the Purdue "All-American" Marching Band. Select the song title Back Home Again in Indiana. Then hear the song.

Law student studying the Indiana Revised Statutes. Select a passage. Find precedents from a 1920 Supreme Court ruling stored at Cornell. Cross-referenced hyperlinks allow viewing any of 520 related cases with audio annotations.

Look at a company's floorplan. Select an office. Employee's name Melliyal Annamalai and picture appears with a list of her current projects.

Scientist doing work on the cooling of steel springs. Select item in a research paper. View a computer-generated animation of a cooling spring. Request and receive a program which will perform thermodynamic calculations.

Reading a WWW art magazine. Select a work "Fountain on the Old Square in Prague, Czech Republic" to display. If the piece is a sculpture, request to see a video of the sculpture rotating. Interactively control the video. Zoom in to see more detail.