Hypermedia: A Design Philosophy
http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed/papers/55.html
  peer-reviewed

Bieber, Michael and Joonhee Yoo
ACM Computing Surveys
1999

Abstract:

Few designers explicitly think about their applications' interrelationships. Designers appear not have a deep enough conceptualization of their domains to identify intuitive relationships and realize the full scope and interconnections within domains. RNA (Relationship-Navigation Analysis) gives designers and developers an analysis tool to think about an information domain in terms of its interrelationships. RNA incorporates a complete taxonomy of generic relationship types that would apply to any application domain.