Authoring Interactive Multimedia Presentations

Abstract

Creating multimedia/hypermedia documents requires two major steps: authoring and publishing. If we use the creation of a paper book as an analogy, then this first step is the creation of authoring of the underlying information (words, story, plot, themes, etc.) This information them needs to be published (typeset printed, bound etc.). It is viable to say that multimedia documents go through a similar process. Authoring is the process of creating and storing information in a fashion appropriate to its intended uses. This often involves either transforming existing information sources or creating new information to populate an information repository. Publishing is the process of of presenting this information to the user, including issues such as look and feel, screen layout and usability.

The term authoring has often been used to refer to the entire multimedia document creation process, including publishing.