%T Conference on a Disk: A Successful Experiment in Hypermedia Publishing (Extended Abstract)
%A M. Cheyney
%A P. Gloor
%A D. B. Johnson
%A F. Makedon
%A J. Matthews
%A P. Metaxas
%R Technical Report PCS-TR94-208
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D March 1994
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR94-208.pdf
%X
 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.