[1] [DFN[[RUBYB[ハイパーメディア]@en[hypermedia]]]]は、[[ハイパーテキスト]]を使った[[媒体]]、
とりわけ[[多媒体]]なものを指すのではないかと思われます。
1990年代後半に使われた言葉で、 [[HyTime]] などがありました。

[3] [[2010年代]]中頃から、 [[JSON API]] に他の[[エンドポイント]]の [[URL]]
を含めることを[[ハイパー媒体]]と呼ぶ人達が現れて一部で流行しています。

[FIG(short list)[ [2] [[ハイパー媒体]]対象・対応を名乗る技術
- [[HyTime]]
- [[HATEOAS]]
-- [[Siren]]
-- [[Jiron]]
-- [[Hydra]]
-- [[UBER]]
-- [[Mason]]
-- [[hyper-item]]
- [[JSON Hyper-Schema]]
- [[XML Hypermedia]]
]FIG]

[FIG(quote)[
[FIGCAPTION[
[4] [CITE@en[GitHub API v3 | GitHub Developer Guide]]
([TIME[2017-06-10 05:53:45 +09:00]])
<https://developer.github.com/v3/#hypermedia>
]FIGCAPTION]

> All resources may have one or more *_url properties linking to other resources. These are meant to provide explicit URLs so that proper API clients don't need to construct URLs on their own. It is highly recommended that API clients use these. Doing so will make future upgrades of the API easier for developers. All URLs are expected to be proper RFC 6570 URI templates.

]FIG]


[FIG(quote)[
[FIGCAPTION[
[5] [CITE[Bitbucket API]]
([TIME[2017-09-08 17:06:52 +09:00]])
<https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/meta/cors-hypermedia>
]FIGCAPTION]

> Every 2.0 object contains a links element that points to related resources or alternate representations. 

]FIG]