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Foil 52 Possible Uses of Digital Audio/Video for Goethe-Institut

From The Information Highway amd Multimedia Information Resources for Goethe Institut Goethe Institut Annual Meeting -- 22 May 1996. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
Clearly digital audio and video supports the type of collaborative environments needed for cultural exchange
  • this is natural use by consultants in distributed computer centers as envisaged by NSF resolicitation for supercomputer centers
Digital video (in fashion similar to VRML 2.0) can be annotated to provide much more interactive version of classic documentaries
  • This is video equivalent of clickable 3D VRML scenes and is "academic" version of consumer interactive Movies where you can choose paths etc.
Digital Audio and Video is currently less than 5% of web data but eventually it will be dominant (95%) form of digital information and serving will be major Web activity.
Broad distribution requires ISDN-ATM speeds but can deliver from local WebServers as only needs Ethernet or less for each client
  • This is "Education in a box " -- ship multimedia courses on a Windows NT server to remote sites
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