A Multimedia Authoring-in-the-Large Environment to Support Complex Product Documentation |
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Authors: | Hsu Liang H Liu Peiya Dawidowsky Tim |
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Affiliation: | (1) Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey. Email;(2) Siemens Energieerzeugung KWU, Muelheim, Germany |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we present a new paradigm for multimedia document authoring to support large-scaled industrial technical documentation. An industrial-strength multimedia authoring environment requires a high degree of automation support for producing a large amount of high-quality technical documentation efficiently and effectively, and provides a consistent user interface to facilitate viewing and browsing of large-scaled technical contents. Product documentation includes technical information in all media for all aspects of a product during the life cycle of the product. Product documents are highly cross-referenced and often shared by a family of related product models. Previous authoring paradigms have their limitations in supporting such complex technical documentation required for today's sophisticated products. Our approach is based on an authoring-in-the-large paradigm by adopting formal configuration specifications for automatically assembling machine-specific product manuals from component documents, and formal hyperlink specifications for systematically creating hyperlinks in highly cross-referenced technical documents. Integrated media-specific viewers are provided to support viewing, browsing and navigation of large-scaled hyperlinked multimedia contents in a consistent manner for various product-related applications such as operation, maintenance and training on various platforms such as UNIX, PC/Windows, laptops and hand-held devices locally and over network. |
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Keywords: | authoring-in-the-large SGML conversion component document document database product manual composition product manual configuration specification document evaluation document transformation incremental composition AIU extraction AIU structure specification automatic hyperlinking hyperlink specification incremental hyperlinking hyperlink management large-scaled document browsing hyperlink browser multimedia document annotator multimedia document mailer card-based document browsing form-based document browsing network-based document delivery |
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