Introduction to COHSE

The current approach to creating a web of hyperlinked resources is to embed links within documents. The consequence of this approach is that links on the Web are unidirectional and difficult to author and maintain. COHSE presents an alternative approach in which links are added to documents according to the preferences of the user.

This approach reduces the maintenance burden and provides a flexible means of creating links between existing web documents. For example, it allows us to create links between separate silos of content (such as Sun's many external public websites) without requiring the content of those sites to be changed.

The intended audience for this document comprises those members of academic and industrial research groups whose focus includes the Web in general and the Semantic Web and Hypertext in particular.