With modern technology, these collections may be Web documents rather than hard copies.
Most Web documents are still relatively simple, primarily text with a few pictures.
Escapade is designed to create dynamic web documents from this data.
Since a web document's ranking on major search engines like Yahoo!
Today, a user has to know or find the address of a Web document that contains information he or she wants.
The rich structure implicit in hyperlinks among Web documents offers a simple, and effective, means to deal with many of these problems.
These technologies are combined in order to provide descriptions that supplement or replace the content of Web documents.
This approach works fine for publishing purposes, however, a large amount of data stored in Web documents cannot be processed this way.
Several software companies now offer products that let people save Web documents on their computers' hard disks so that they can be viewed off line.
The servers also store the digital patient files as Web documents, allowing them to be read by any computer, hand-held or otherwise.