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Manual definition of hypermedia information network

 *Manual discovery and definition of hypermedia links is a very painful and time consuming process with doubtful results. One important issue, especially in large  hypermedia systems is identifying the links between pieces of data. Depending on the type of a hypermedia system, links can be navigational and organisational. Navigational links refer to another node, and they give users the ability to "move" from one node to another. Organisational links implement a network of "related to a subject" information nodes. Apart from these essential types of links several other types of links can exist to increase the functionality, efficiency and productivity of the "running" hypermedia system. All this types of links must be discovered and identified by the developer ( author ) of a hypermedia system. Then these links  must be explicit defined in the hypermedia system. The existence of these links will "create" the network of ideas that the hypermedia system has the intention to demonstrate to the hypermedia user-explorer. This process of explicit discovering, identifying and defining links between nodes of information can be compared to the process of knowledge acquisition that a knowledge engineer undertakes to build a knowledge base. As the expense and effort to acquire knowledge form experts in a specific domain is large, the same is the effort for discovering and defining explicit links between nodes in hypermedia. This is a very painful, time consuming process  with doubtful completeness, accuracy and consistency of the final hypermedia "running" system.