The World-Wide Web, the world's largest hypertext structure, has already in the last ten years a huge development. Recently, many worldwide consistent or semi-consistent collections of scientific data, in specific disciplines, have become accessible on Internet. These sources of information comply with a standard for interoperability. In this paper we propose an extensible framework based on XM...

This paper describes the transformation of an existing set of heterogeneous product knowledge into a coherent design repository that supports product information archival, storage and reuse. Existing product information was analyzed and compared against desired outputs to ascertain what information management structure was needed to produce design resources pertinent to the design process. Seve...

The idea of separating content from its presentation information was one of the key aspects in developing Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its supporting technologies such as e.g. Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). XML vocabularies are not much good for human viewing and navigating; they do not need to be and they (primarily) have not be designed with this purpose in mind. Instead, trans...

Constructing server-based Web applications requires creating both Web pages and programs that generate Web pages. This requires a knowledge of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) protocol, and a programming language, such as C++, Python, or Perl. While this is not a barrier for programmers, it is for non-programmers. This paper describes WebWriter, an integr...

As the amount of data generated by biomolecular simulations dramatically increases, new tools need to be developed to help manage this data at the individual investigator or small research group level. In this paper, we introduce iBIOMES Lite, a lightweight tool for biomolecular simulation data indexing and summarization. The main goal of iBIOMES Lite is to provide a simple interface to summari...

Multimedia messaging service (MMS) promises a dramatic increase in messaging capabilities for mobile phone users that will enrich their experience. For network operators and content and service providers, it will create a major new source of revenue because it adds features such as color pictures, animations, audio samples, and video clips. However, the current MMS standard provides only a few ...

LATEX [1,2] and FrameMaker TM (e.g. [3]) both employ text markup, i.e. they use annotations rather than actual format to indicate the layout of text. Markup languages belong to a family that includes HTML (HyperText Markup Language [4]), derivatives of roff (Run-Off Language) and SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language [5]). Although LATEX and FrameMaker superficially share the same approach...