H2PTM (2003) King

Programming, modelling, and engineering

Complementary activities in multimedia authoring

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Titre Programming, modelling, and engineering : Complementary activities in multimedia authoring Auteurs Peter R King Affiliations Department of Computer Science University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; Canada prking@sc.UManitoba.ca Dans actes du colloque H2PTM 2003 Paris publié dans H²PTM03 : Créer du sens à l'ère numérique: Hypertexte, hypermédia

Abstract

Multimedia authors are, typically, not programmers, and accordingly multimedia authoring tools and languages tend to be special-purpose and rather restrictive in nature. Similarly, such authors are not usually skilled software engineers; neither do they readily make use of formal models in their work. Thus such special purpose tools and languages tend not to provide specific design support nor to be based on underlying, formal models. In this paper we will argue that programming, engineering, and modelling and rare all highly relevant to the authoring activity. We will discuss a number of possible approaches, based on the work of the author and his colleagues, which suggest how support for these three complementary activities might be introduced into multimedia authoring systems.

Keywords 

hypermedia, multimedia, authoring, software, programming, modelling, engineering.