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TECHNOLOGY--Multimedia

The Web is used to deliver information in a wide range of data formats. The resources in this section cover the technical, research, and academic issues of multimedia.

• Audio

  ------ Major Collections

  • Audio WWW VL: Entry from WWW Virtual Library for Audio (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/audio.html)

    ------ Organizations and other information

  • CERL: The CERL Sound Group (U of IL) (http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu)
  • Clips: Sites with audio clips (http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~jmyers/other-sounds.html)
  • CMC-Interpersonal-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet between people, like Internet phones (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-interpersonal-audio.html)
  • CMC-Group-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet between a group of people; audio conferencing (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-group-audio.html)
  • CMC-Mass-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-mass-audio.html)
  • Internet Multicasting WWW: Home page for the Internet Multicasting Service (http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/radio/radio.html)
  • IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive (http://www.iuma.com)
  • MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface (http://www.eeb.ele.tue.nl/midi/index.html)
  • Multicast Backbone: live audio and video multicast virtual network on top of Internet (ftp://venera.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt)
  • Music Resources: a collection of information about musicians, groups, compusers, performance, research, genres, and journals and magazines about music; extensive collection of links organized into categories (http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/)
  • Mbone FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone (MBONE) (http://www.mediadesign.co.at/newmedia/more/mbone-faq.html)
• Graphics
  • ACM/SIGGRAPH: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics (http://www.siggraph.org)
  • CGU-Manchester: The Computer Graphics Unit - Research at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom (http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/CGU-research.html)
  • GVU-GA Tech: Georgia Institute of Technology's Graphics, Visualization, + Usability Center (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/gvutop.html)
  • Scientific Visualization: Annotated Scientific Visualization URL Bibliography (http://www.nas.nasa.gov/RNR/Visualization/annotatedURLs.html)
  • Thant's: animation index, descriptions of computer-generated animations (http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/thant/thant.html)
• Multi

  ------ Major Collections

  • ACM/SIGMM: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Multimedia Systems (http://www.acm.org/sigmm/)
  • Digital Reality: produced by Gemini Consulting's Communications, Computers, Consumer Electronics and Content (C4) Practice. It is designed as a resource and community for people interested in C4 industries and how digitization, connectivity and globalization are changing the way businesses work. (http://digital.gemconsult.com)
  • Mulimedia Collection: The Vancouver (Candada) Film School's collection of links to technologies about film, multimedia, animation, and editing (http://www.multimedia.edu)
  • Multimedia Index: Multimedia Information Sources, by Simon Gibbs; an extensive, carefully selected list of multimedia information sources; frequently updated and organized by category; covers links on just about everything having to do with multimedia (http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo/)

    ------ Organizations and other information

  • CDM-NYU: New York University (NYU) Center for Digital Multimedia, a New York State Center for Advanced Technology, sponsored by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation (http://found.cs.nyu.edu)
  • ICME-RPI: The International Center for Multimedia in Education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (http://ciue.rpi.edu/icme/)
  • IMA: International Multimedia Association (http://www.ima.org)
  • Macromedia: multimedia information and design (http://www.macromedia.com)
  • MCRL-Ottawa: Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa (http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca)
  • Media Lab-MIT: MIT Media Lab Home Page (http://www.media.mit.edu)
  • MICE: Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/)
  • Multimedia formats: Multimedia file formats on the Internet, by Allison Zhang (http://www.lib.rochester.edu/multimed/contents.htm)
  • Multimedia Lab BU: Multimedia Laboratory at Boston University (http://hulk.bu.edu)
  • Multimediator: guide to multimedia associations, books, magazines, Internet resources, and employment. Multimediator also features original articles about the art and business of multimedia and the Canadian Developers Directory, the Internet's most extensive list of Canadian companies developing interactive multimedia content (http://www.ideaguy.com)
  • Rob's Multimedia Lab: a collection of archives and informaiton about graphics, sound, and movies on the Net (http://www.acm.uiuc.edu:80/rml)
• Hypermedia
  • ACM/SIGLINK: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Hypertext/Hypermedia; includes an excellent section on links to further resources (http://www.acm.org/siglink/)
  • Bush, Vannevar: As We May Think, article from July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly about hypertext (http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/)
  • Electronic Labyrinth: an exploration and discussion of hypertext terminology and the history and meaning of hypertext (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0276.html)
  • Hypertext systems: An Overview of Hypertext and IR systems and applications (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Products/Overview.html)
  • HTML Station: a collection of information, about hypertext markup language (http://www.december.com/html/)
  • Hypertext terms: glossary of terms from the WWW project, from CERN (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Terms.html)
  • Web Development: planning, analysis, design, implementation, and promotion. Key practices and online resources are given for each process. (http://www.december.com/web/develop.html)