Guenter Hilmer - Phd Thesis - Glamorgan Dspace - University of ...

3.4 EFTECS at EHP-Layer 3 EFTECS
hypermedia elements at different locations on the WWW. The location of
the different EHPs at different locations throughout the WWW is therefore
guaranteed.
• MEDIATYPE
At the lowest level of the EFTECS it is important for the authoring tool to
know with which kind of hypermedia it is working. This allows different
ways of using text, video, audio and so on.
• PREFERRED APPLICATION
To display or use the EHPs in the best possible way it is important to know
which application should be used, for example a hypermedia educational
authoring tool, a specific video player or a third party application such as
Apple Quicktime for specific videos.
3.4.2 Domain information
The domain information of the EHP allows the EFTECS to create an efficient
structure for the content space. It is necessary to know which topic or domain
the material is from. For this version of the EFTECS only three levels of domain
information were created. However, if it turns out that three structure levels are
not enough, the EFTECS can easily be extended by additional domain information
layers.
• TOPLEVEL
The toplevel information of the EHP provides the basic domain information
of the EHP, e.g. programming.
• SUBLEVEL
The sublevel information of the domain allows a more detailed description
of the domain of the EHP, e.g. C++ programming.
• SUBSUBLEVEL
The lowest level of the domain information, the sub-sublevel, provides the
EFTECS with the finest description of the domain of the EHP, e.g. pointers.
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