Open Hyperdocument System Goes Mobile

An Open Hyperdocument System (OHS) is a standard-based, open source framework for the creation and maintenance of Dynamic Knowledge Repositories (DKR). The HyperScope is a first stage OHS that can be used to browse and comment OHS files. This paper takes a look at how well OHS and HyperScope could be utilized through mobile devices. This is done by comparing the essential elements of OHS and the functional capabilities of HyperScope with the basic capabilities of mobile devices, with emphasis on mobile phones. The paper will show that the biggest problem with mobile devices is the size of the display, but they could still be used to browse OHS files. The HyperScope should be implemented as a mobile-aware server-side application so that clients could be used to connect to it. The HyperScope Server should also transform the data into a presentable format for the client.