Meme media architectures for re-editing and redistributing intellectual assets over the web

  • Authors:

  • Yuzuru Tanaka;Kimihito Ito;Daisuke Kurosaki

  • Affiliations:

  • Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, N-13, W-8, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan;Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, N-13, W-8, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan;Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, N-13, W-8, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue on HCI research in Japan
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

While current Web technologies have allowed us to publish intellectual assets in world-wide repositories, and to browse the resulting massive accumulation, we have no effective tools yet to flexibly re-edit and redistribute such intellectual assets for their reuse in different contexts. Open Hypermedia Systems addressed the problem of augmenting third-party applications in 90s, and more recently Web augmentation. We need extended OHS technologies for the advanced reuse of Web-published intellectual assets through re-editing and redistributing them. Meme media and meme pool technologies will work as such extended Open Hypermedia Systems technologies to annotate, re-edit, and redistribute Web-published assets. This paper reviews the IntelligentPad and IntelligentBox meme media architectures together with their potential applications, and proposes both the use of XML/XSL or XHTML to define two-dimensional meme media objects. When applied to Web contents, meme media technologies make the World Wide Web operate as a meme pool, where people can publish their intellectual assets as Web pages, access some Web pages to extract some of their parts as meme media objects through drag-and-drop operations, visually combine these meme media objects together with other meme media objects to compose new intellectual assets, and publish these assets again as Web pages. Our framework creates a new vista in the circulation and reuse of our knowledge represented as multimedia documents and/or application programs, especially in the field of science.