A Representation of Media for Multimedia Authoring and Browsing
Systems
Ethan V. Munson and Mark Pfeiffer
Abstract
This paper describes the TDO model of media, which describes media as
they are viewed by multimedia authors and the authoring software they
use. This model is the basis of the MSPEC medium specification
language, which is used to configure a style sheet system for
multimedia authoring systems. The TDO model is compared to two other
models drawn from multimedia and intelligent systems research and the
possibility of creating a general model of media is discussed. An
appendix describes recent extensions to the TDO model.
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