The AEIOU hypermedia project

Author

Maurer, H.

fYear

1994

fDate

25-28 May 1994

Firstpage

192

Lastpage

196

Abstract

Austria is celebrating its millennium in 1996: although Austria is much older than 1000 years, the German name for Austria (Ostarici) is first found in a written document dated 996. For this celebration, one of the most ambitious networked multimedia presentations ever is currently being developed. For the name of the project, the acronym AEIOU has been chosen: one may read this as “Annotatable Electronic Interactive Ostarici Universal presentation” or as “Austria Erit In Orbe Ultima” (“Austria will be the best in the world”). Most aspects of Austria are covered by compiling a 50 GByte database that will be available as a series of CD-ROMs, as public kiosk applications and as a multi-platform presentation via the Internet. This paper describes the aim of the project, mentions some of the more unusual details and reports on the status of the development

Keywords

CD-ROMs; factographic databases; history; hypermedia; internetworking; multimedia systems; 50 GB; AEIOU hypermedia project; Annotatable Electronic Interactive Ostarici Universal presentation; Austria; CD-ROM database; Internet; millenium celebration; multi-platform presentation; networked multimedia presentation; public kiosk applications; Art; CD-ROMs; Charge carrier processes; Costs; Encyclopedias; Heart; Internet; Multimedia databases; Web server; Wrapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Animation '94., Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6240-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CA.1994.323991

Filename

323991