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Management of Plug-Ins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Wed Aug 11 20:03:12 1999
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:48:35 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
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_Management of Plug-Ins_
As part of my overview/review of the Ramifications of Multimedia in
Electronic Journals, I am greatly interested in learning about the management of
the installations of plug-ins / helper applications to support the Multimedia
in these journals in academic and research libraries/ institutions.
I am interested in managing the plug-ins / helper applications for any and
all types of multimedia found in these e-journals, notably, audio, video,
animation, VRML, and animation., as well the management of
plug-ins in general.
For examples, see my M-Bed(sm) registry of
embedded multimedia electronic journals at
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm
Are the plug-ins installed and/or maintained from a central server, or are
they installed machine-by- machine? Otherwise?
In general, what are the issues faced in installing and maintaining such
plug-ins? The associated costs? Policy issues?
As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, questions, or critiques are
Most Welcome!
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
Beware the Nines of September (9-9-99)
