A Multimedia Presentation Toolkit for the World Wide Web

✍ Scribed by JOHNNY WONG; SATISH RAO; NAVEEN RAMAIAH

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 322 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0644
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(199704)27:4<425::aid-spe92>3.0.co;2-2

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes the design and implementation of MPRES, a Multimedia Presentation Toolkit for the WWW. The WWW has seen phenomenalgrowth over the last couple of years.It has become a vast repository of multimedia information that is accessible to virtually anyone having a browser. MPRES is a multimedia presentation system that allows a user to compose and render a presentation consisting of objects referenced by their URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). It uses the concept of dynamic documents to render on a WWW browser, a sequence of multimedia scenarios, having objects of types such as audio, image, plaintext, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) document and animation. MPRES Author, the authoring subsystem, allows the user to interactively test and compose such a presentation, using the Netscape Navigator to collect multimedia resources from the WWW. A presentation database stores the presentations and provides a convenient frontend for accessing them.