The documentation linked to by the left side navigation bar is non-normative and provides a comprehensive by-example description of OData to make it simple to learn the protocol. The description of OData on this page is divided into a group of documents (Core, Formats, URL Conventions, etc) to reflect the fact OData is designed to be modular such that an OData implementation need only implement as much of an OData specification as required for its target scenario.
To get started learning OData, begin by reading the OData Core document and progress to the other documents as required by your scenario.

We need a general purpose media type, which extends JSON, that can be used as a standard way to represent a resource and its relations to other resources on the Web.

It’s very important, particularly because we are talking about JSON, that this media type be simple in its design. There are only three essential capabilities for representing resources that this media type needs deliver:

1. Representing resource state
2. Linking to other resources
3. ‘Framing’ of embedded resources

HAL (application/hal+json) is a media type designed for this purpose.

Collection+JSON is a JSON-based read/write hypermedia-type designed to support management and querying of simple collections.

Source code for the O'Reilly book of the same name.

Optional readings for Robert Wilensky's CS 294-3: Distributed Information Management course at UC Berkeley.

Readings for Robert Wilensky's CS 294-3: Distributed Information Management course at UC Berkeley.

Lecture notes for Robert Wilensky's CS 294-3: Distributed Information Management course at UC Berkeley.

The purpose of this course is to examine ongoing research issues related to digital documents. As suggested by the title, major themes include information representation, information presentation, information linking, and information interoperation. Implicit in these issues are also issue of collaborative use of information, i.e., how networks of information using users can be greater than the same of their parts.

The goal of the course is to lay the foundation for further evolution of networked digital document systems. The ideal student is one with lots of initiative, who enjoys learning together with students from different disciplines, and is excited by the prospect of identifying the important questions to ask, and by the opportunity to shape the directions of an incipient technology.

The course will cover some fundamental technologies, but also examine ongoing (and continually evolving) attempts to bring such technologies into common use. The course will comprise weekly readings, lectures followed by discussion of papers and issues, and occasional guest lectures. Students will work on assignments and a course project, which they will report on in class toward the end of the semester.

Ideally, student projects will advance the state of the art of "network-centric" digital documents.

Tim Ewald explains why hypermedia is good for system integration through services –providing support for evolution, service request routing, and application recovery-, and how to build such services.

Web Intents is a framework for client-side service discovery and inter-application communication. Services register their intention to be able to handle an action on the user's behalf. Applications request to start an Action of a certain verb (share, edit, view, pick etc) and the system will find the appropriate Services for the user to use based on the user's preference.

This document specifies relation types for Web links, and defines a
registry for them. It also defines the use of such links in HTTP
headers with the Link header field.

We might need a few more buttons on objects we allow for sale by when this becomes ‘common fashion’, don’t you think? Suggestions: ‘This may (not) be transferred on the hypergrid.’ ‘This is ‘all ages’ / ‘mature’. (And then hypergrid enabled sims could block incoming ‘mature’ items if they wished.

The SeeAlso Linkserver API documentation is intended for web developers that want to write dynamic web pages that include additional links, or to developers that want to provide links and other information to specific resources that people can include in their web pages.

Douglas Tudhope leads the research on Knowledge Organisation Systems and Services.

A request to any web server in existence can be modeled in the simplest of terms: what, who, where, why, when, and how.

Since stories are so powerful by virtue of the fact that their "meaning" is open-ended—very much in the eyes of the beholder—we are interested in how stories might be indexed on the Web.

COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is a simple, ad hoc community specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML.

We gather stories of all shapes and sizes from countless perspectives around the world, and then present them in a rich browseable landscape, helping you make connections you never knew existed.

Part 17 of ISO/IEC 21000 is entitled Fragment Identification for MPEG Resources and specifies a normative syntax for URI Fragment Identifiers to be used for addressing parts of MPEG audio, video or applications.

It’s time to take a look at how microformat detection could potentially appear in the user interface of a future version of Firefox.

Browsable map of nodes in the IUPAC Gold Book, a compendium of chemical terminology, with semantic links between them.

A sample list of some of the enhanced articles is available at the bottom of this page.

Building upon the natural relationship between Wikis and hypermedia, we examine to which extent the current state of the art in the field fulfills the requirements of modern hypermedia systems.

Render any content that runs in Firefox as a texture on some geometry in OpenGL.

The Superimposed Pluggable Architecture for Contexts and Excerpts (SPARCE) is a middleware architecture for superimposed information management.

Spatial hypermedia is accomplished through image recognition and camera-equipped mobile devices.

Basically doing with TV what bloggers were doing in 1999 with the web -- snipping bits here and there to make a full picture of some topic through the use of quotes and links.

It includes a knowledge model of intertextual studies, a standardised hypermedia document model and a prototype multimedia authoring tool for use in the publishing life-cycle.

The goal of the course is to lay the foundation for further evolution of networked digital document systems.

Tinky is a simple tagging system that works using standard HTML style links.

I should check out some of the accepted papers at the 16th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia.

I suppose it's unreasonable to expect the world's first so-called hypertext novel to have a compelling plot.

Everything we need for efficient classification and recommendation is in place, with the exception of things we take for granted in the textual realm: selection, quotation, and linking.

The research projects conducted in the Hypermedia Laboratory concentrate in planning and developing new digital user-friendly services that help people in their everyday life.

This hypertext essay is a discussion that has developed from an iterative theoretical and design project where video prototypes have been developed to explore and make visible the possibilities for alternative forms of video blogging practice.

The shape concept affords a richer analytic tool for considering humans' use of digital documents and invokes social level analyses of meaning that are shared among discourse communities who both produce and consume the information resources.

The Little TransQuoter brings in quotations from all over the Net and concatenates them in a Web page, keeping each quotation connected to its source.

Fenfire: A free software project aiming at implementing the applitude-oriented (structured in terms of "zones of functionality") user interface concepts on top of an RDF graph.

Research interests include the automatic generation of user-tailored hypermedia presentations (NASH, Topia, ToKeN2000 I2RP and CHIME) and document models for hypermedia and synchronized multimedia on the Web.

An XML-based markup language for time-continuous data: tags provide for the creation of structured and unstructured annotations as well as hyperlinks and addressable named anchor points for clips of time-continuous data.

The Annodex technology extends the World Wide Web's hyperlinking, searching, and compositing infrastructure to time-continuous data, enabling e.g. video surfing, searching for clips of audio and video files using ordinary Web search engines, etc.

Dr. Mark's research examines the usability of leading edge collaborative technologies including a collaborative hypermedia authoring system.

The popular media players are built for an audience of consumers, not producers. They assume that you'll watch and listen, perhaps scanning backward and forward. But if you want to republish and contextualize, it's insanely hard.

There isn't market demand for client-side, hackable hypermedia right now. As much as I would love to see SMIL take off, we've got a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem getting this bootstrapped. Someone has to do the work of coding this stuff up.

I [am]... frustrated by the opaqueness and intractability of existing hypermedia content. I want to be able to repurpose that stuff on my blog. And I'd like to see all of our blogs enriched with original A/V content.

It is crucial to build robustness into the intra-document location resolution mechanism, so that locations continue to function even as documents change chaotically.

Research focuses on issues concerning the characteristics and use of electronic media with the goal of identifying theoretical and design principles to serve as guidelines for implementation.