01866nas a2200217   4500008004100000245008600041210006900127260000900196300001400205490000700219520111900226653002201345653002001367653002401387653004401411653002901455100001501484700001401499700001801513856011701531       2012                        eng d00aSnippets and component-based authoring tools for reusing and connecting documents0 aSnippets and componentbased authoring tools for reusing and conn  c2012  a399 - 4090 v103 aThis paper presents the Snippet System, a new operating system environment that aims at providing enhanced document management facilities. For this, the proposed system utilizes a novel document model based on finer-grained entities, so-called Snippets. These support Relations, which capture the context of individual document excerpts. Snippets furthermore enable a flexible reuse of documents, i.e., user-defined excerpts can be included in several other documents with only selected properties remaining synchronized between different instances. Moreover, dedicated mechanisms allow for the efficient retrieval of these instances and thus support the user in keeping track of reused excerpts and synced properties. The Snippet System relies on a component-based authoring tool architecture that enables different authoring tools to collaborate for handling documents. This allows for combining the contents created by various tools in a single document, independently of the type of content and tools involved, thus making possible the reuse of documents and the definition of Relations across tool boundaries.10aApplied computing10aAuthoring tools10aDocument management10aDocument management and text processing10aHuman-centered computing1 aKirsch, L.1 aBotev, J.1 aRothkugel, S.  uhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874892012&partnerID=40&md5=559724084cafa42bb9580bae7e030bbe01772nas a2200241   4500008004100000245007800041210006900119260000900188300001400197490000600211520099100217653002001208653002201228653002901250653002501279100001801304700001501322700001801337700001901355700001501374700002401389856011701413       2006                        eng d00aSemantic, constraint & preference based multimedia presentation authoring0 aSemantic constraint preference based multimedia presentation aut  c2006  a207 - 2130 v43 aWe present in this paper an integrated system that allows the management and annotation of multimedia objects stored in MPEG-7/21 repositories, and the specification and semi-automatic generation of multimedia presentations based on the content relationships that exist between the multimedia objects. This system is the outcome of the collaboration between the Technical University of Crete (TUC-MUSIC) and the University of Milan (UNIMI) in the CoCoMA (Content and Context Aware Multimedia Content Retrieval, Delivery and Presentation) project of the DELOS II European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries. The resulting system is one of the main components of the CoCoMA infrastructure that aims to provide content- and context-aware rich interactive multimedia presentations by controlling data fusion and metadata reuse. The integrated system utilizes the SyMPA management and presentation authoring system developed by UNIMI and the DS-MIRF framework developed by TUC-MUSIC.10aAuthoring tools10aDigital libraries10aMultimedia presentations10aMultimedia standards1 aTsinaraki, C.1 aPerego, A.1 aPolydoros, P.1 aSyntzanaki, A.1 aMartin, A.1 aChristodoulakis, S.  uhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33845937945&partnerID=40&md5=762148820f31cebc540800656d2bbd38