de Walle. Multichannel publication of interactive media documents in a news environment

Abstract. The increasing number of devices for multimedia consump-tion poses a significant challenge on the device independence of Web Information Systems. Moreover, media content itself becomes increas-ingly complex, requiring not only an adaptive layout model, but also support for interactivity and synchronisation of resources. In this paper, we use the XiMPF document model integrated with de-scriptive languages for layout, synchronisation and interaction. This in-tegration preserves the uniformity which XiMPF handles singular re-sources and composed multimedia items with. Moreover, it improves the reusability and automatic adaptation of multimedia content. We focus on the introduction of interactivity in this model and present a publi-cation engine which processes XiMPF items and their descriptions, and generates different versions of the content for different platforms.