Electronic Multimedia Publishing: Enabling Technologies and Authoring Issues / Edition 1

by Fillia Makedon, Samuel A. Rebelsky

Overview

Electronic Multimedia Publishing brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.
Electronic Mulitmedia Publishing serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792381082
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	02/28/1998
Edition description:	Reprinted from MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, 6:2, 1998
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

MediaWeaver—A Distributed Media Authoring System for Networked Scholarly Workspaces.- ASML: Automatic Site Markup Language.- ASTER—Towards Modality-Independent Electronic Documents.- Structural Queries in Electronic Corpora.- Obstacles in Web Multimedia Publishing: Bringing Conference Proceedings On-Line.- Resource-Limited Hyper-Reproductions: Electronically Reproducing and Extending Lectures.

Editorial Reviews

Including an introduction, seven papers discuss tools and strategies for electronic publishing. Among the topics: authoring systems such as a software framework (MediaWeaver) for composing distributed multimedia applications supported by a variety of platforms, and a Web-based system called the Automatic Site Markup Language designed for creating uniform and reconfigurable multimedia web sites with minimal programming effort; the Audio System for Technical Readings (ASTER) which audio-formats electronic texts for the visually impaired; a retrieval engine for text and image documents that is based on document layout; a description of trade-offs and design decisions for authoring multimedia conference proceedings for the Web; and a process for multimedia authoring for those with limited resources. A special issue of , v.6, no.2, 1998. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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