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In the ACTS-project DIANE (Design, Implementation and Operation of a
Distributed Annotation Environment), a multimedia annotation system
has been developed. One of it's greatest benefits over legacy
multimedia authoring systems is it's simplicity. It enables
users to create multimedia documents instantly without requiring
great knowledge of programming languages or other details of the
authoring system. Media can be integrated into annotations ranging
from standard monomedia objects like audio, images, etc. to recorded
application output from legacy applications. The client/server
architecture has been implemented in a platform-neutral way using
Java and it's extensions (e.g. Java Media Framework) and is
running on either Internet/Intranet and broadband network
technologies like ATM. This paper will present the architecture and
the document model of DIANE with a focus on integrating custom user
applications into multimedia annotations. A usage scenario will
describe the system in general.
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