Conference on a Disk: A Successful Experiment in Hypermedia Publishing (Extended Abstract) Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR94-208 M. Cheyney P. Gloor D. B. Johnson F. Makedon J. Matthews P. Metaxas Date: March 1994 URL (PDF): (336KB) Abstract: Academic conferences are a long-standing and effective form of multimedia communication. Conference participants can transmit and recieve information through sight, speech, gesture, text, and touch. This same-time, same-place communication is sufficiently valuable to justify large investments in time and travel funds. Printed conference proceedings are attempts to recapture the value of a life conference, but they are limited by a fragmented and inefficient approach to the problem. We addressed this problem in the multimedia proceedings of the DAGS'92 conference. The recently published CD-ROM delibers text, graphic, audio, and video information as an integrated whole, with extensive provisions for random access and hypermedia linking. We belive that this project provides a model for future conference publications and highlights some of the research issues that must be resolved before similar publications can be quickly and inexpensively produced.