Objective Dynamic publishing is characterised by two dimensions: the composition and delivery of multimedia publications from a continually developing pool of information, and interactive, individualised access for the user to the changing document base. The initial application focus will be on risk communication. Risk management includes both those associated with individual behaviour (e.g. smoking) to those associated with technological development (e.g. nuclear power). Risk communication is integral to management and the pilot will concentrate on improving usability by:supporting the capturing, structuring and combining of multimedia information;allowing fast and easy update, revisions and extensions;improving the 'individualisation' of risk communication by allowing easy interaction with the information environment;providing rapid access to heterogeneous multimedia repositories.At a later stage the pilot may be extended to other areas of dynamic publishing such as individualised newspapers, and tourist guides.The cluster domain proposed here is dynamic publishing. In many areas of publishing, the pace of change of the information to be published makes support for the dynamics of publishing process crucial: information in all types of media must continually be generated, filtered, stored, edited, structured, published, targeted, delivered and tailored to the user needs. At the same time the dynamics of user access must be supported, e.g. by allowing navigation in open information spaces.This exploratory project will define appropriate objectives for a cluster of tasks in dynamic publishing, specify its scope, formulate task descriptions and pilot projects which have proved feasibility.A two step approach is taken to cluster definition: a key initial application focus within dynamic publishing will be selected and an initial task cluster developed around this initial application focus. In the second step, requirements and task definition are refined and expanded to cover the full domain of dynamic publishing.The initial application focus chosen is risk communication, an area for which dynamic publishing is already of critical importance in large corporations and public organizations across the whole of Europe. Major user organisations understand the need for work on support for this area of publishing and several have committed to this project. Starting from the specific requirements of the initial focus domain, the project will define a first set of tasks for dynamic publishing. This will be complemented by an investigation of the potential of key technologies relevant to this domain. At the core of this investigation are issues in advanced hypermedia technology which is essential for large-scale multimedia information systems, and key to supporting dynamic processes in publishing.In the subsequent expansion of focus to the full domain of dynamic publishing, the requirements of a number of further application areas will be investigated, including highly dynamic individualized newspapers, tourist guides, product documentation, training, material and encyclopedia publishing. The results of these different exploration activities will result in a final task cluster for dynamic publishing. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringsocial sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management Programme(s) FP3-TELMATPREP C - Exploratory actions covering certain fields of R&D in the area of telematics in preparation for the specific programme on Telematics Applications under the Fourth Framework Programme, 1994-1995 Topic(s) 2.1 - Multimedia Publishing Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator EMPIRICA GESELLSCHAFT FUER KOMMUNIKATIONS- UND TECHNOLOGIEFORSCHUNG MBH EU contribution No data Address OXFORDSTRASSE 2 53111 BONN Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BIFOA Germany EU contribution No data Address Universitätsstraße 45 50931 Köln See on map Total cost No data Bayerische Ruckversicherung Germany EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Daimler-Benz AG Germany EU contribution No data Address Mercedesstraße 136 70327 Stuttgart See on map Total cost No data Eastern Ambulance Service Ireland EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Hoechst AG Germany EU contribution No data Address Brüningstraße 65926 Frankfurt am Main See on map Total cost No data Interactive Multimedia Systems Ireland EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data KFA Research Centre Germany EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data University of East Anglia United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address University Plain NR4 7TJ Norwich See on map Total cost No data
