The link data can be superimposed on a document when it is viewed on the Web. Effectively, the links are added at runtime, appearing as familiar Web 'buttons' within the text. In other words, the page will look like any other Web page, but it may or may not have many more links. In addition the project explored the impact of linkbases on publishing. In a rich link environment the critical need is for quality links.
Links are a means to offer access to selected works, which is what journals do now.
One scenario in this analysis is that the published 'journal' will become a set of links.