As you gather from reading this book, the field
of multimedia is widely divergent.
However, when you develop a multimedia application,
you will find that all topics treated so far will become
relevant.
There will be a need to mix multiple media formats.
You will have to find suitable codecs for your video.
You will be asked whether search is possible.
And, not the least important, you will have to balance
navigation and presentation.
This chapter is based on the work we, that is my students,
have been doing in the domain of cultural heritage.
In the first section, we will introduce the notion of
digital dossier
and outline our general approach.
We will then in section 2 look at some examples,
and describe how we deploy concept graphs as a universal
navigation tool for complex information spaces.
Finally, in section 3, we will explore the options
for presenting multimedia material
and discuss the design issues as well as the technical issues
that have arisen in the course of our work.