Towards open source authoring and presentation of multimedia content

  • Authors:
  • Nikitas M. Sgouros;Alexandros Margaritis

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece;University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the international workshop on Human-centered multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Open source principles and methodologies allow open access to both the development process and its products. This paper describes a number of significant research issues for the creation of novel development environments that support open source authoring of multimedia content and dynamic forms of personalization during content consumption. These environments should allow an unlimited number of users to modify existing media content and post their contributions on the net. In addition, they should allow users to visualize the current state of development in each project, select a subset of the various contributions and dynamically compose, view and share with other users new content versions containing all the selected contributions. Furthermore, the paper describes a pilot web-services-based implementation for such a system developed in C# that is now freely available on the Web.