Anchors Anchors are defined and managed by viewers in the context of a view. An anchor tags some portion of a view as an item of interest. Anchors are tailored by a viewer to the particular view of the object being displayed. Even when creating anchors on the view of an object, the underlying object may be left unmodified, still usable by tools unaware of Chimera's existence. Links A link is a set of anchors.
Links relate portions of views.
Links are first-class objects in Chimera and a viewer can be constructed to display them. Anchors may be created on these link views and included in other links. Each instance of a Chimera hypertext concept can have an arbitrary number of attribute-value pairs associated with it. An attribute-value pair consists of two associated strings where one string contains the attribute's name, the other its value. Hyperwebs A collection of objects, viewers, views, anchors, and links along with their attributes is a Chimera hyperweb.