Deep Linking Desktop Resources

TL;DR

This paper introduces DeepLinker, a tool that enables deep linking to specific locations within desktop resources, facilitating direct navigation and integration with other resources through hyperlinks and RDF.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel system for deep linking into desktop files, allowing precise referencing and linking capabilities that were previously unavailable.

Findings

DeepLinker generates and interprets deep links for desktop resources.

Supports HTML and RDF formats for resource representation and interlinking.

Enhances navigation and resource referencing within desktop environments.

Abstract

Deep Linking is the process of referring to a specific piece of web content. Although users can browse their files in desktop environments, they are unable to directly traverse deeper into their content using deep links. In order to solve this issue, we demonstrate "DeepLinker", a tool which generates and interprets deep links to desktop resources, thus enabling the reference to a certain location within a file using a simple hyperlink. By default, the service responds with an HTML representation of the resource along with further links to follow. Additionally, we allow the use of RDF to interlink our deep links with other resources.