Paper Info
Title
Delivery of electronic news: a broadband application
Abstract
This paper describes an ongoing research program for the development of an electronic news delivery system that exploits the promised high-bandwidth, switched, interactive communication facilities of the information highway. The research program is in a preliminary stage and will investigate the design and organization of the news sources, client/server architecture, and user interfaces leading to a prototype model electronic news delivery system. Initially based on a newspaper metaphor, the system will exploit communication and multimedia technologies to integrate other news sources, such as newscasts and video clips, with the text backbone. The system will provide selective content delivery based on individual and group profiles, hypertext links into archival and external data, continuous coverage of news stories, interactive objects, and "smart" advertising.An initial prototype client has been developed using data that include video clips and news and photos from the Halifax newspaper, The Chronicle-Herald. An abstract data representation was developed for the integration of layout, syntactic, and semantic information from a variety of sources for the dynamic presentation and manipulation of the news items. This prototype allows us to explore the potential of the medium for supporting user interfaces that cope with a potentially large number of news items in a very restricted screen space and the potential for innovative advertising unlike any advertising we currently experience.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1994
CASCON
video clip,broadband application,abstract data representation,delivery system,news item,initial prototype client,electronic news delivery system,prototype model electronic news,news story,news source,external data,user interface,client server architecture,data representation
Field
DocType
Citations 
Hypertext,World Wide Web,Architecture,External Data Representation,News aggregator,Computer science,Exploit,Newspaper,User interface,Multimedia,Metaphor,Distributed computing
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.43
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
F. J. Burkowski125588.69
Michael A. Shepherd249367.67
C.R. Watters3229.34