The HyperImage platform supports the linking of (audio)-visual objects, texts and mixed-media documents. References between images in total, regions of images, annotations regarding the images, and other media, are achieved by means of hyperlinks.

The HyperImage Authoring System is a web-based system consisting of three main components – server, connector and database – on to which the graphic frontend (the HyperImage Editor) is built. Data is exchanged between the HyperImage Editor and the HyperImage Server using standardised methods via SOAP/HTTP.