Beyond HTML: Web-Based Information Systems

The widespread use of the Web for information management, as opposed to mere presentation, has revealed the weak points of HTML as a general purpose scripting language for information retrieval and query result presentation over the HTTP protocol. Early implementations of Web front ends to libraries, that proposed an HTML form page in place of typing into a telnet connection, have rather disappointed end-users who had to face extended network latency for no apparent profit. We share the view that digital libraries should offer the end-user enhanced functionality compared to the physical library [12, 14, 19]. Despite recent attempts to extend the
language specification (HTML 4.0) and reverse its static nature utilizing server-side processing (e.g. Meta-html [8], dynamic HTML, etc.) it is still hard to achieve the dynamic interactive environments we would like to have at our disposal when accessing large online repositories.
Based on the experience gained during our project design, we intend to present the main problems of standard HTML for Web Based Information Systems (WBIS) and possible leeways for enhancement offered by recent developments. After reviewing current capabilities, we explain and justify our rationale for choosing a combination of standard HTML with Java applets and servlets to implement a 3-tier architecture for the manipulation of the digital library.

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