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Document Specification and Dissemination with an Extensible Multimedia System

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Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS)

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The research project MAVA (MultimediaDocument Versatile Architecture) focuses on simplification of specification and dissemination of multimedia documents. The problems discussed and solved by the MAVA approach are observed by using existing authoring systems. Application specific multimedia systems provide fixed concepts for only one application area. Generic systems allow the specification of documents of arbitrary application areas. This leads to complex specifications and the requirement of programming skills for authors. Goal of the MAVA approach is to simplify authoring of multimedia documents in different application areas by an extensible specification language. This allows to add new language elements for particular application areas to simplify authoring. While the extension with new media types is addressed by several approaches the MAVA approach considers also the extension for new particular application areas.

Document dissemination plays also an important role. For the presentation of a document basing on arbitrary language extensions also the presentation system itself has to be dynamically extended over the Internet.

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  1. Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR), University of Stuttgart, Breitwiesenstr. 20-22, 70565, Stuttgart, Germany

    Jürgen Hauser & Kurt Rothermel

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  1. Digitale Kommunikationssysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Denickestr. 17, 21071, Hamburg, Germany

    Ulrich Killat

  2. FB Informatik/VSYS, Universität Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

    Winfried Lamersdorf

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Hauser, J., Rothermel, K. (2001). Document Specification and Dissemination with an Extensible Multimedia System. In: Killat, U., Lamersdorf, W. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS). Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56675-2_18

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