The World-Wide Web is probably the single largest electronic information resource. Yet, because of the way the Web is structured and the way new information is added to the Web, it is becoming increasingly difficult for users to locate relevant information by navigation and existing search tools.
Users are able to create new interpretations for objects and modify existing ones.
During a browsing session, the object's interpretation which will apply is dependent on how the user arrived at that object. The path becomes the context in which a user is looking for information or browsing, and the interpretation of the current object determines the object's location in the hypertext. Each label can be linked to another object. Each child object knows its parents by their object names and the labels via which they are connected. HyperContext also provides support for Information Retrieval which takes direct advantage of the contexts and interpretations of information.