• 1. Introduction to Multimedia Cartography
  • 1.1. What Is Multimedia
  • 1.2. History of Multimedia
  • 1.3. Multimedia-Cartography
  • 1.4. Structure and Navigation
  • 1.5. Self Assessment
  • 1.6. Summary
  • 1.7. Recommended Reading
  • 1.8. Glossary
  • 1.9. Bibliography
  • 1.10. Metadata

1.10. Metadata "Introduction to Multimedia Cartography"

Please note that the Metadata-chapter is only available in English!

Organisation

Level	CartouCHe
Module:	MMK
Lesson:	This is Lesson: No. 1 (histcarto)

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this lesson.

Keywords: ARPANET, Authoring System, Hypercard, Hypermedia, Hypertext, Interactivity, Map Types, Memex, Multimedia Cartography, Navigation of a multimedia application, Structure of a multimedia application, World Wide Web.

Technical requirements

The following Multimedia-types are used in this lesson. Please check that your browser supports them all:

• Text
• Picture (JPEG)
• Picture (PNG)
• Flash
• SVG

Please check that your computer meets the following technical requirements:

Type	Name	min. Ver.	Installation remarks
PlugIn	Quicktime Player (for all types of video and music files)	7	installs a stand-alone player as well as a plugin; Follow the download instructions of the webpage and the installation instructions of the installing wizard
PlugIn	Adobe SVG Viewer (for SVG files in Internet Explorer)	3.0	only necessary in combination with some old browsers (e.g. IE6 or 7). New browsers usually have native SVG support and you don't need this plugin. If you need it, please follow the installation instructions of the installing wizard
PlugIn	Macromedia Flash Player (for Flash files)	9.0	Follow the download instructions of the webpage and the installation instructions of the installing wizard
PlugIn	Adobe Acrobat Reader (for PDF files)	9	installs a stand-alone player as well as a plugin; Follow the download instructions of the webpage and the installation instructions of the installing wizard

Lesson Information

Language:	English (EN) German (DE) French (FR) Italian (IT) This is the original language of this lesson.
Lifecycle:	Version 2 (Created: 2005-08-05; last modified: 2012-01-26).
Authors:	Regula Stopper (Overall, IKA@ETHZ, stopper@karto.baug.ethz.ch): Regula has written all this text . Rene Sieber (Content, IKA@ETHZ, sieber@karto.baug.ethz.ch): Rene Sieber provided the content for this lesson. Olaf Schnabel (Revision, IKA@ETHZ, schnabel@karto.baug.ethz.ch): Olaf Schnabel revised the text, wrote some parts of it new and made all interactive examples compatible for all browsers.
Difficulty Level:	Low Medium High
Typical Learning Time:	1.5h (This lesson should take about 1.5 hours.)

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