Multimedia Publishing on the Internet:

Who am I and why am I talking about this?

• The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
• The UCCS University Archives: a Guide

The World Wide Web

• Vannevar Bush, the idea of hypertext, and trailblazing

• CERN Laboratory development: 1989

• A period of phenomenal growth

• Seamless, based on simple protocol for authoring and markup

References:

1. Measuring the Growth of the Web, by Matthew Gray of net.Genesis Corporation.
2. World Wide Web Seminar: Overview of the Web: CIO Communications
3. Wallach, Dan: The Growth of the World Wide Web.

What is "Multimedia" about all this?

• Text and Hypertext
  Examples:
  • From close to home: The Annotated "Ramble On Rose"
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• Graphics
  • Example from close to home: Julia Hoerner's Art Studio

• Sound
  Examples:
  • From close to home: Andre Brower's Chinese Tutor
  • Internet Underground Music Archive

• Video

• Virtual Reality

• Computer programs and database searching
  • All Movie Guide

What are the possibilities?

Getting Started, including Tools for Authoring