Obstacles in Web Multimedia Publishing: Bringing Conference Proceedings On-Line

  • Authors:
  • Peter A. Gloor;Fillia Makedon;Oliver Van Ligten

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755, USA. E-mail: makedon@dartmouth.edu;Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755, USA. E-mail: makedon@dartmouth.edu;Institute for Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail: ligten@ifi.unizh.ch

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

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Abstract

This paper highlights the problems associated with placing technicalmultimedia materials on-line on the World Wide Web. It discusses obstaclesin (a) automating the collection and processing of the multimediacomponents, and (b) limitations in the interface design imposed byrestrictions associated with continuous media and especially audio. Usingas paradigm the publishing of multimedia technical conference proceedings(“DAGS‘95 Conference on Electronic Publishing and the InformationSuperhighway”), the paper proposes a manageable framework for theproduction of such proceedings, one that allows parallel development of thesubmitted papers in hypertext format and of the time-based media (talks) inmultimedia format.