Leverage existing tools, and protocols, at all levels. This is one of economic necessity and moral obligation for those of us professing software engineering in grass-root academic centers. In this position paper we have presented the motivation and a framework for incorporating any given document into a hypermedic environment. Work is in progress to assemble a complete instance of the IDAM framework using readily available tools. We have devised a workable scheme by dividing the documents into structured and unstructured assets.
End users browse the HTML counterparts using readily available Web browsers.
There are numerous unanswered questions and at the symposium we hope to initiate discussion, identify issues and requirements, resolve some of these questions, and refine our proposal. Supporting bibliography may be obtained from the author.