Towards a Multimedia Formatting Vocabulary

Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI, Amsterdam

Presented on Thursday, 22 May, during the multimedia track of the the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference in Budapest, Hungary.

Abstract

Time-based, media-centric Web presentations can be described declaratively in the XML world through the development of languages such as SMIL. It is difficult, however, to fully integrate them in a complete document transformation processing chain. In order to achieve the desired processing of data-driven, time-based, media-centric presentations, the text-flow based formatting vocabularies used by style languages such as XSL, CSS and DSSSL need to be extended. The paper presents a selection of use cases which are used to derive a list of requirements for a multimedia style and transformation formatting vocabulary. The boundaries of applicability of existing text-based formatting models for media-centric transformations are analyzed. The paper then discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a fully-fledged time-based multimedia formatting model. Finally, the discussion is illustrated by describing the key properties of the example multimedia formatting vocabulary currently implemented in the back-end of our Cuypers multimedia transformation engine.

Slides are available in PDF, the full paper is also available on-line.

      @inproceedings{ins:www2003,
      url       = {http://www.cwi.nl/~media/publications/www2003/p383-ossenbruggen.html},
      author    = {Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Joost Geurts and Lynda Hardman and Lloyd Rutledge},
      title     = {{T}owards a {F}ormatting {V}ocabulary for {T}ime-based {H}ypermedia},
      pages     = {384 -- 393}
      publisher = {ACM Press},
      booktitle = {The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference},
      address   = {Budapest, Hungary},
      month     = {May 20-24,},
      year      = {2003},
      organization = {IW3C2}
      }
    

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