Providing this support has been the goal of Jim's research into versioning and configuration management of hypermedia. Jim was a participant in the first Workshop on Versioning in Hypertext Systems, held at ECHT'94 where he presented a proposal for adding versioning support to the Chimera open hypermedia system. Versioning and configuration management are important issues for the World Wide Web. Jr. Position paper for Sixth International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, held with ICSE18, Berlin, Germany, March, 1996. Before focusing on the versioning aspects of open hypermedia, Jim worked with Ken Anderson and Prof. Dick Taylor on the Chimera open hypermedia system.
Chimera provides hypermedia infrastructure for use within a software development environment.
Due to its openness, Chimera can provide hypermedia functionality within existing tools such as vi, FrameMaker, an MPEG player, etc. Jim's research on the Chimera project has focused on these client application integrations with the Chimera system. Jr. Proceedings of Hypertext'99, the 10th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, pages 75-82. Jr. Journal of Digital Information , Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1997. An Architectural Model for Application Integration in Open Hypermedia Environments E. James Whitehead, Jr. Proceedings of Hypertext'97, the Eighth ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, pages 1-12.