Active documents combining multimedia and expert systems

  • Authors:
  • Mildred L. G. Shaw;Brian R. Gaines

  • Affiliations:
  • Knowledge Science Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4;Knowledge Science Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

  • Venue:
  • SIGDOC '94 Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Systems documentation: technical communications at the great divide
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

An active multimedia document publication system is described which integrates a number of different representation technologies to provide a medium offering a wide spectrum of usage, including new forms of scholarly communication. The capabilities range from emulation of current paper publication, through electronic document delivery on the Internet or CD-ROM, multimedia inclusion of video and sound, hypermedia linkage, to formal knowledge representation for simulation and inference. Aspects of the implementation are described, and examples are given of applications, including one in which an active document forms the knowledge base of an expert system.