MediaWeaver—A Distributed Media Authoring System for Networked Scholarly Workspaces

  • Authors:
  • Sha Xin Wei

  • Affiliations:
  • Sweet Hall 415, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. E-mail: xinwei@stanford.edu

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We describe MediaWeaver—a software framework for composingdistributed media in the context of university research and instruction.Authors compose networked media, software tools and mediastreams, and canfreely annotate media by media of any form using schema of their own design.Faculty and student authors compose distributed media using commonMacintosh, World Wide Web and NeXTSTEP applications, supported by servicesfrom UNIX workstations.The MediaWeaver system mediates between network multimedia services andinterface kits with which novice programmers and non-programmers may easilycreate radically different interactive views into shared mediabases. Thenetwork services include search engine abstractions, filters, relationalmodeling frameworks.MediaWeaver has supported collaborative projects in history, drama,music, art, anthropology, environmental studies, and other fields since1993. Applications range from traditional relational text databases andindexed HTML WWW sites to course readers, research archives, journals andseminar spaces.