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In this paper we discuss a multimedia news system that we have developed in the Multimedia Information Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa and beyond. We focus on the feature set—that is, the tools and facilities associated with the system. We explain the functionality of each and give some real examples of the system in action. We then outline the architecture—the system consists of a production server for document authoring, a conferencing system for collaborative news article creation, a content database for authors, a hypernews database for hypermedia news documents, a news database server with aging and archiving, and user sites. The goal was to have all components of the system communicating on OCRInet—an R&D ATM network in the Ottawa region. We then introduce the challenges of representing and browsing large video objects and to this end we introduce a novel solution that we call video-tiles. This video tool is an effective way to browse large news videos that are frequently connected with our multimedia news articles.
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Falchuk, B., Karmouch, A. Feature set and architecture of a multimedia news system over an ATM network. Multimed Tools Appl 2, 11–33 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00717821
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