Enhancing the Distributed Link Service for multimedia and collaboration

Author

De Roure, David ; Carr, Les ; Hall, Wendy ; Hill, Gary

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

1997

fDate

29-31 Oct 1997

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

335

Abstract

Open hypermedia offers a powerful approach to working with distributed multimedia information. Carr et al. (1995) presented the Distributed Link Service (DLS), a design for open hypermedia on the Internet using the WWW infrastructure. In this paper, we report on work in progress on three extensions of the DLS to provide a more complete linking infrastructure: an agent for on-the-fly link insertion for text documents, new techniques for application of links to multimedia streams, and agents for link processing and management

Keywords

Internet; distributed processing; groupware; hypermedia; open systems; software agents; Distributed Link Service; Internet; MIDI; World Wide Web infrastructure; collaboration; digital audio; distributed information management; distributed multimedia information; hyperlink applications; link management; link processing agents; linking infrastructure; multimedia streams; on-the-fly link insertion agent; open hypermedia; text documents; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer science; Data models; Information management; Joining processes; Streaming media; Systems engineering and theory; Web and internet services; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1997., Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Tunis

ISSN

1071-0485

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8153-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1997.644746

Filename

644746