Subject: Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals
Gerry McKiernan (gerrymck@iastate.edu)
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:57:47 CDT
Message-Id: <199905151857.NAA17269@pv0b02.vincent.iastate.edu> Subject: Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:57:47 CDT From: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu>
_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:
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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 http://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
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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
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