Publicação
Time-based hypermedia processing and pattern system
| Resumo: | This thesis presents solutions on automated processing and patterns for time-based hypermedia. While there is a good consensus on processing and patterns for traditional hypermedia (i.e. the World Wide Web), when time constraints are taken into account (e.g. hyperlinks attached to a video), the increased complexity must be dealt with. A specific domain relates to Digital Talking Books (DTB). They bring blind peoples analog audio books to the digital domain, with additional features such as table of contents and bookmarking. They can also be enriched with addendum material (e.g. images, videos), allowing for a wider user spectrum and usage scenarios. To cope with this complexity, an automated production framework for rich DTBs (DiTaBBu -- Digital Talking Books Builder) is presented. It provides a clear separation between production concerns (reestructuring, formatting, interaction, presentation), thus being scalable and highly configurable towards processing automation for digital libraries. As most document related technologies for the Web are based on standardized languages derived from XML, a processing model and language was created, APP (Architecture for Pipelined Processing), and DiTaBBu was defined on top of it. This allowed for a more flexible approach towards the automated rich DTB production process. A pattern system has been also defined, reflecting a set of good practices for common problems found on the development of any time-based hypermedia systems and applications design. These patterns were extensively used in DiTaBBu inner components, and can also be found in other time-based hypermedia systems and applications. |
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| Autores principais: | Lopes, Rui Miguel do Nascimento Dias |
| Assunto: | XML processing Time-based hypermedia Digital talking books Automated production Patterns Teses de mestrado - 2006 |
| Ano: | 2006 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | This thesis presents solutions on automated processing and patterns for time-based hypermedia. While there is a good consensus on processing and patterns for traditional hypermedia (i.e. the World Wide Web), when time constraints are taken into account (e.g. hyperlinks attached to a video), the increased complexity must be dealt with. A specific domain relates to Digital Talking Books (DTB). They bring blind peoples analog audio books to the digital domain, with additional features such as table of contents and bookmarking. They can also be enriched with addendum material (e.g. images, videos), allowing for a wider user spectrum and usage scenarios. To cope with this complexity, an automated production framework for rich DTBs (DiTaBBu -- Digital Talking Books Builder) is presented. It provides a clear separation between production concerns (reestructuring, formatting, interaction, presentation), thus being scalable and highly configurable towards processing automation for digital libraries. As most document related technologies for the Web are based on standardized languages derived from XML, a processing model and language was created, APP (Architecture for Pipelined Processing), and DiTaBBu was defined on top of it. This allowed for a more flexible approach towards the automated rich DTB production process. A pattern system has been also defined, reflecting a set of good practices for common problems found on the development of any time-based hypermedia systems and applications design. These patterns were extensively used in DiTaBBu inner components, and can also be found in other time-based hypermedia systems and applications. |
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