38.2 DAGS95 Sample Guided Tour
This section describes a sample guided tour of the web-based DAGS'95 proceedings. The DAGS'95 proceedings are available on-line on the Addison-Wesley-Interactive web site.
http://awi.aw.com/DAGS95After selecting the DAGS'95 URL, users get to a title screen offering various options (figure IV.14):
- Following the Invited Speakers link brings users to the digitized talks of the invited speakers.
- The Presented Papers link leads users to a directory of the papers and on-line versions of most of the papers.
- The link to Hardcopy proceedings allows users to buy a printed version of the proceedings. This illustrates our belief that even in the emerging cyberspace society there are still many situations where a printed document is superior to any hypertext. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/ dags/
- The DAGS'95 Conference Home Page leads to the official DAGS home page on the DEVLAB server at Dartmouth College.
Figure IV.14 DAGS'95 proceedings title screen
http://awi.aw.com/DAGS95
If users choose to click on "Invited Speakers" in fig. IV.14, they are presented with a table of contents including the names and titles of available presentations (fig. IV.15). Clicking on a presentation title brings them to the first slide of a talk.
Figure IV.15 DAGS'95 Table of contents for digital talks
http://awi.aw.com/DAGS95/Talks/ Talks.html
On the talks screen (fig. IV.16), a table of contents of all slides used in the talk is presented alongside the slide. Users can either browse sequentially through the talk, or jump to any slide by clicking on a slide title. The selected slide in the slide table of contents appears in italics to indicate the selected slide's title. In figure IV.16 users are already on slide 6 of Tim Berners-Lee's talk.
Figure IV.16 Slide 6 of Tim Berners-Lee's talk
Due to the restricted bandwidth of the Internet, the audio portion belonging to
a slide has been cut into chunks of normally at most 300 KBytes. The soundtrack
of slide 6 consists of three pieces, as can be seen by the three "
"
icons. By clicking on one of the icons in the control panel, users can download
and play the soundtrack of the talk piecewise. In figure IV.17 they clicked on
the first sound icon to download the first sound clip.
Figure IV.17 Downloading part 1 of the soundtrack for slide 6 of Tim Berners-Lee's talk
Figure IV.18 illustrates playback of the soundtrack for slide 6 playing back all three of the audio files sequentially, using the Netscape helper application SoundMachine.
Figure IV.18 Playing back the soundtrack for slide 6 of Tim Berners-Lee's talk with SoundMachine
During the talk, the user can at any time get background information about the speaker by clicking on her/his name in the upper left corner of the talks screen. Clicking on "Speaker:Tim Berners-Lee" leads to Tim Berners-Lee's home page at the MIT W3 consortium. Contrarily to CD-ROM-based proceedings, where only a canned version of the speaker's bio can be provided, the web allows to include up-to-date information about the speaker.
Figure IV.19 Tim Berners-Lee's home page
Clicking on the Netscape "
"-button
and selecting the "DAGS'95 Papers" link at the bottom of the page leads to the
table of contents of the submitted papers (figure IV.20).
Figure IV.20 Table of contents of the DAGS95 papers
Unfortunately, not all presenters have also submitted their papers in HTML format, such that only a subset of the presented papers is on-line available on the AWI server. Clicking on "Augmenting Text: Good News on Disasters" leads to a full paper in HTML (figure IV.21).
Figure IV.21 Sara Elo's paper in the DAGS'95 proceedings
On-line papers are available in a standardized HTML-format, starting with an abstract and a table of contents, as shown in figure IV.21.