Multimedia authoring systems: A proposal for a reference model

This paper describes a proposal for a reference model for multimedia authoring systems. In this context a multimedia authoring system is a combination of hard- and software for making, presenting/running and revising the entire multimedia document and its informations. The reference model framework consists of the user component, the knowledge component, the design support component and the system component. The framework specification was done top down in a modular way and it includes support for various design philosophies, design workgroups, networking and document lifetime cycle models.