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A Scalable Toolkit for Designing Multimedia Authoring Environments

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This paper introduces Kaomi, a scalable toolkit for designing authoring environments of multimedia documents. The underlying concept is to provide the designer of multimedia applications with a fast method to get an authoring system based on a set of synchronized views (the presentation view for displaying the document, the scenario view for showing the temporal organization of the document, ...) so that each view is the support of editing actions. Kaomi is flexible enough to support a variety of multimedia documents declarative formats. It is indeed a scalable toolkit since it provides facilities for extending and/or for modifying the resulting authoring environment. In addition, cross-platform portability is provided which allows operation in the heterogenous Internet environment. The use of Kaomi is mainly described through the design of two authoring environments: one for authoring a sub-set of the Smil standard of the W3C and the other one for Madeus, a constraint based multimedia language.

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Jourdan, M., Roisin, C. & Tardif, L. A Scalable Toolkit for Designing Multimedia Authoring Environments. Multimedia Tools and Applications 12, 257–279 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009675809463

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