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Title | ||
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A Multimedia Authoring-in-the-Large Environment to Support Complex Product Documentation |
Abstract | ||
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In this paper, we present a new paradigm for multimedia document authoring tosupport large-scaled industrial technical documentation. Anindustrial-strength multimedia authoring environment requires a high degreeof automation support for producing a large amount of high-quality technicaldocumentation efficiently and effectively, and provides a consistent userinterface to facilitate viewing and browsing of large-scaled technicalcontents. Product documentation includes technical information in all mediafor all aspects of a product during the life cycle of the product. Productdocuments are highly cross-referenced and often shared by a family ofrelated product models. Previous authoring paradigms have their limitationsin supporting such complex technical documentation required for today‘ssophisticated products. Our approach is based on an authoring-in-the-largeparadigm by adopting formal configuration specifications for automatically assembling machine-specific product manuals from component documents, andformal hyperlink specifications for systematically creating hyperlinks inhighly cross-referenced technical documents. Integrated media-specificviewers are provided to support viewing, browsing and navigation oflarge-scaled hyperlinked multimedia contents in a consistent manner forvarious product-related applications such as operation, maintenance andtraining on various platforms such as UNIX, PC/Windows, laptops andhand-held devices locally and over network. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1999 | 10.1023/A:1009643213925 | Multimedia Tools Appl. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
authoring-in-the-large,SGML conversion,component document,document database,product manual composition,product manual configuration specification,document evaluation,document transformation,incremental composition,AIU extraction,AIU structure specification,automatic hyperlinking,hyperlink specification,incremental hyperlinking,hyperlink management,large-scaled document browsing,hyperlink browser,multimedia document annotator,multimedia document mailer,card-based document browsing,form-based document browsing,network-based document delivery | World Wide Web,Computer science,Technical documentation,Multimedia authoring,Unix,Common Source Data Base,Automation,Hyperlink,User interface,Documentation,Multimedia | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
8 | 1 | 1573-7721 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
10 | 0.85 | 15 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liang H. Hsu | 1 | 22 | 4.32 |
| Peiya Liu | 2 | 502 | 35.42 |
| Tim Dawidowsky | 3 | 10 | 0.85 |