Xerox trails: a new web-based publishing technology

Venkatesh G. Rao; David Vandervort; Jesse Silverstein

doi:10.1117/12.838245

10 February 2010 Xerox trails: a new web-based publishing technology

Venkatesh G. Rao, David Vandervort, Jesse Silverstein

Proceedings Volume 7540, Imaging and Printing in a Web 2.0 World; and Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems IV; 754007 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838245
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2010, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Xerox Trails is a new digital publishing model developed at the Xerox Research Center, Webster. The primary purpose of the technology is to allow Web users and publishers to collect, organize and present information in the form of a useful annotated narrative (possibly non-sequential) with editorial content and metadata, that can be consumed both online and offline. The core concept is a trail: a digital object that improves online content production, consumption and navigation user experiences. When appropriate, trails can also be easily sequenced and transformed into printable documents, thereby bridging the gap between online and offline content experiences. The model is partly inspired by Vannevar Bush's influential idea of the "Memex" [1] which has inspired several generations of Web technology [2]. Xerox Trails is a realization of selected elements from the idea of the Memex, along with several original design ideas. It is based on a primitive data construct, the trail. In Xerox Trails, the idea of a trail is used to support the architecture of a Web 2.0 product suite called Trailmeme, that includes a destination Web site, plugins for major content management systems, and a browser toolbar.

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Venkatesh G. Rao, David Vandervort, and Jesse Silverstein "Xerox trails: a new web-based publishing technology", Proc. SPIE 7540, Imaging and Printing in a Web 2.0 World; and Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems IV, 754007 (10 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838245

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