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  <Title>The Pausanian Notation: a method for representing the structure and the content of a hyperdocument</Title>
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CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
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    <Paragraph position="0"> By proposing the Pausanian notation we argue that it is time to start providing hypermedia authors with tools to help them find the problerns inherent in their designs themselves. By no means do we believe that a notation will solve all the problems. What we argue is that by defining the attributes that play a key role in the synthesis of a hypermedia structure and making them visually available to the composers of the application, possible problems and causes can be revealed, and the overall design and the performance of the application can be improved.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this paper we have introduced the Pausanian notation as well as its main features: the aspects of interest, the Pausanian Map, the variables of interest, and the Pausanian Chart. The major case study being used lbr evaluating and testing the notation, is Pausanias 2000, a h37)ermedia librao'for the ancient Hellenic WorM (The Attica Region).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We are also currently evaluating our method on another six Microcosm and three Storyspace \[6\] applications. Due to space limitations, we cannot discuss in detail the results of our evaluation however, we have found that our approach has been justified and that. by using the Pausanian Notation, the author can quickly track and correct en'ors occurring throughout the structure.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Our plans for future work are directed as follows: in the very near future we would like to have completed the classification of aspects (!f interest and rariables of interest as well as to improve the paper representation of the Pausanian Maps. In parallel, we will be working in the implementation of the Pausanian Notation for representing, examining and analysing the structure of Web based applications. Having achieved that. we will start automating the process of creating the Pausanian maps tk~r Microcosm applications, by adding the appropriate functions to the Microcosm Make-Link feature. The fact that Microcosm keeps all the link information stored in a linkbase file, makes it much easier to extract any information needed for producing the different Pausanian Maps. The implementation of the Pausanian method for representing the structure of a Web application, will be based on WebCosm (the Web version of Microcosm \[4\] ).</Paragraph>
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