Multimedia
Gateways to internet resources
Multimedia Tools & Applications
Online journals
Journal for Multimedia History
Athens e-resources
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Multimedia topics
Audio
Harmony Central - Access to MIDI tools and resources.
Graphics
3D Animation Workshop - Tutorial that teaches the principles behind animating 3D graphics for the web.
ACM Transactions on Graphics - Publication of the Association for Computer Machinery, the world's first educational and scientific computing society.
Internet and intranet design
Intranet Design Magazine - Full of best practice suggestions, technical briefings and news.
Web Developers Virtual Library - Resources and tutorials for web designers, including software reviews, employment and discussion lists.
Web Style Guide - E-book detailing the principles of web design.
Multimedia devices
CD Information Centre - Provides industrial directories and articles about CD manufacturing, and industry and product information for CD users and publishers.
Next Generation of CD/Web Hybrids - Article about the impact of the web on CD-ROM technology and the potential of CD/online hybrids. Contribution of CD caching, parallel searching and offline access to the success of such hybrids are discussed.
Multimedia - Digital photography
Canon Digital SLR - Canon guide to using the digital SLR camera.
Multimedia - General
Director Web - Forum for authors offering demonstrations, sample scripts, guides to object-oriented programming, internet resources and downloadable applications.
IEEE Multimedia - Covers technical information on a broad range of issues in multimedia systems and applications. Typical topics include hardware and software for media compression, media storage/transport, workstation support for multimedia, data modelling and abstractions to embed multimedia in application programs.
ITTI EMASHE: Establishing multimedia authoring skills in higher education - Project to train university staff in offering and authoring hypertext and multimedia packages and produce a series of illustrative applications.
Multimedia Tools and Applications - Publisher of original research articles on multimedia development and system support tools, and case studies of multimedia applications. Tables of contents and abstracts are available, but full-text is only available to subscribers.
Social Learning in Multimedia (SLIM) - Final report of EC project examining the process of innovation in multimedia technology development. Highlights the importance of social learning and argues that the evolution and success of multimedia depends on interaction between producers, users and policy-makers.
New Media Studies: Web Culture, Design and Reviews - Source of information on interactive and electronic media, including reviews of books and journals, a guide to web design and full-text articles. Provides a collection of annotated links to internet usage statistics and to websites which exploit new media.
Streaming Media World - News, tools and tutorials for webmasters developing and managing multimedia content online.
The Home Digital Darkroom - A beginner's guide to computer imaging and printing using digital cameras, scanners and home photo printers.
Multimedia - Law
Washlaw - Internet resources for multimedia law.
Software
Adobe Acrobat Reader Software - Allows users to view, navigate and print PDF files across all major computing platforms.
Adobe Product Training - Selection of Adobe-approved training packages.
Macromedia Shockwave Player Download Centre - Instructions for downloading Shockwave free of charge.
Macromedia - Producers of multimedia and internet software.
Quicktime software - Allows playing and editing of digital video, making use of panoramas which provide 360 degree views and objects which create a view from outside an image. Multiple panoramas and objects can be combined into scenes.
Windows Media Player - Media software that supports various formats as well as offering intelligent streaming.
Standards
Flash Open File Format - The file format specification for Flash, atool used to create vector-based graphics and animation. Includes press releases, news, FAQs, and a vector graphics white paper.
International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium - Non-profit corporation composed of more than 100 members and affiliates from North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Mission is to promote, encourage and facilitate the development and implementation of interoperable multimedia teleconferencing solutions based on open international standards.
MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3) - Large collection of information and resources about the MP3 format for playing and producing high-quality compressed sound files.
TV Standards - A guide explaining why different TV standards exist.
Video
Video University - Free articles and guides on video production.
Key Organisations
Advisory Group on Computer Graphics
European Association for Computer Graphics
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