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Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Mon May 17 20:47:36 1999
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:35:26 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
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_Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals_
From a brief literature review and as a result of responses received from
an earlier post, I have concluded that Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals
will become quite common within the next 2-3 years. As more and more
libraries are providing access to E-journals either as alternatives or
substitutes for paper subscriptions and as E-journals embrace embedded
multimedia, it appears that there will be significant ramifications for next
generation WebPACs as well as personal workstations.
While not all multimedia requires special plug-ins, the range of multi-media
is expanding rapidly and thus one can expect that library workstations will need
to have the full-range of appropriate plug-ins to accommodate such embedded
media.
I am greatly interested in current efforts by WebPac vendors to provide
built-in default plug-ins for such media as well as information about current
library efforts to anticipate these near term developments.
BTW: I will be preparing a contribution for a professional newsletter next
month and will attempt to provide a sketch of some noteworthy developments
relating to Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals. Among the key sites and cites I
will be incorporating are:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
>Here at Institute of Physics Publishing we positively encourage
>authors to submit multimedia material with a view to enhancing
>the readers' understanding of a paper (see our 'Notes for Authors'
>at www.iop.org/Journals/nfa/node22.html)
>Submissions of this kind are increasing steadily - good examples can be found
in
>the following titles (demonstrations are available at the URLs given).
>Nanotechnology http://www.iop.org/Journals/na
>Combustion Theory and Modelling http://www.iop.org/Journals/ct
>New Journal of Physics http://njp.org
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Terry A Brooks / University of Washington / Graduate School of Library and
Information Science
>I recently wrote a grant to OCLC proposing to investigate
>the enhanced writing functionalities provided by embedded multimedia,
>etc. The grant application is at
>http://weber.u.washington.edu/~tabrooks/Documents/OCLCGrant.htm
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_Internet Journal of Chemistry_
An e-journal with great embedded multimedia is the _Internet Journal of
Chemistry_ at:
http://www.ijc.com/multimedia.html
http://www.ijc.com/
[It has a separate left-hand frame index with a "Multimedia"
index! [Impressive!]]
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_Internet Archeology_
Here is a sitation to an excellent review article I learned
about from my earlier posting
http://intarch.ac.uk/news/eva97.html
It details the early experience with embedded multimedia in an
Internet journal of archaeology.
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Multimedia Information Retrieval
Of special note in a broader context in a research proposal awarded to Mark
Rorvig, Associate Professor with the School of Library and Information Sciences
at the University of North Texas that will seek to develop and refine a
retrieval system for 'composite' formats of text, image, and sound. A
description of the proposal is available at:
http://archive.lis.unt.edu:2000/fall801/intel.htm
In addition, I now searched the INSPEC database and identified
a good dozen or so articles, papers related to Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals
which I will read and weave into my newsletter review [I wish to personally
thank Adam Philippidis
from IEEE for recommending a key work published last year
by the IEEE: Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Workshop (1998 :
Santa Barbara, California). IEEE, 1998.
[OCLC: 40391589]
Thanks again to all who responded!
As Always, Any and All contributions, queries, critiques, comments,
questions, concerns, etc., etc. regarding this
post are Most Welcome.
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
"The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It!"
Alan Kay
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML
