The development of Multimedia Titles (M-Titles) (i.e., multimedia
applications stored on CDs) is performed by many designers and
implementors using tools that run on specific platforms and often have
complementary and/or overlapping functionality. The potential designer
or implementor of an M-Title is restricted by the availability of tools
on a selected development platform. This paper presents a Multimedia
Title Development Environment (MTDE), which integrates multimedia
information, tools used to produce it, as well as their formats and
storage media as objects in an Asset Repository. The cooperative
construction of complex multimedia objects is modelled as a DAG
consisting of two types of nodes: multimedia objects and actions
applied to multimedia objects. An M-Title consists of a number of
complex multimedia objects linked with each other in a hypernetwork of
relationships. MTDE enables a group of authors to cooperatively
construct M-Titles as a hypernetwork of multimedia nodes by activating
tools running on various platforms, by exploiting the hypermedia
functionality of MTDE, and by reusing existing material from the Asset
Repository
