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Hypermedia is the approach to building information systems made up of nodes of various media (such as text, audio data, video data, etc.) connected together by a collection of associative links. A subset of this discipline known as hypertext concentrates on the construction of loosely connected textual systems. The term multimedia is frequently used as a synonym for hypermedia, although strictly multimedia refers to any system that handles multiple media. Hence, multimedia may be seen as superset of hypermedia.
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Beynon-Davies, P. (1998). Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems. In: Information Systems Development. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14931-5_13
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