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Multimedia systems

Here are entered works on computer systems that integrate and present diverse media, such as text, graphics, still and moving images, and audio. Works on media containing information that may be interactively manipulated by individual users through the use of software or microprocessing capabilities are entered under Interactive multimedia.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Information storage and retrieval systems

• Multimedia systems -- Interviews
• Multimedia systems -- Periodicals
• Multimedia communications
• Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
• World Wide Web

• Computer-based multimedia information systems
• Multimedia computing
• Multimedia information systems
• Multimedia knowledge systems

• Digital Creativity (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996), by Owen Kelly (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)
• Squeak by Example (electronic edition, 2008), by Andrew P. Black, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Marius Nierstrasz, and Damien Pollet (PDF with commentary at squeakbyexample.org)

• Designing Media (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Bill Moggridge
  • multimedia with commentary at designing-media.com
  • PDF and audio files with commentary at MIT Press

• Webology (2004-) (full serial archives)
• First Monday (full serial archives)

• The Transmedia Way: A Storytellers, Communicators and Designers' Guide to the Galaxy (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2017), by Max Giovagnoli (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• HTML5 for Web Designers (c2010), by Jeremy Keith (HTML with commentary at html5forwebdesigners.com)

• Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ed. by Michelle Ferrier and Elizabeth Mays (multiple formats with commentary at rebus.community)

• Machine Learning for Data Streams, With Practical Examples in MOA (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Albert Bifet, Ricard Gavaldà, Geoffrey Holmes, and Bernhard Pfahringer (HTML with commentary in New Zealand)

• World Wide Web: Beyond the Basics (prepublication version, 1996), ed. by Marc Abrams (HTML with commentary at vt.edu)
• Spinning the Web: A Guide to Serving Information on the Internet (first edition, 1994), by Andrew Ford (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Web Writing Style Guide (electronic edition; 2011), ed. by Matt Barton, James Robert Kalmbach, and Charles Lowe (multiple formats at writingspaces.org)
• Web-Teaching (second edition, 2001), by David W. Brooks, Diane E. Nolan, and Susan Gallagher (HTML at unl.edu)
• A World's Fair for the Global Village (without audio CD; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1997), by Carl Malamud
  • page images at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Introduction to Metadata (online edition 3.0, 2008), ed. by Murtha Baca, contrib. by Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland, Maureen Whalen, and Mary S. Woodley (HTML with commentary at getty.edu)
• Perl and LWP (online edition, 2007), by Sean M. Burke (HTML at interglacial.com)
• My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (c1998), by Julian Dibbell (PDF with commentary at lulu.com)
• The Internet Publishing Handbook: For World-Wide Web, Gopher, and WAIS (c1995), by Mike Franks (HTML at mikeandnaomi.com)
• Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (unclassified version, slightly redacted; Fort Meade, MD: Center for Digital Content, National Security Agency, 2007), by Robyn Winder, contrib. by Charlie Speight (PDF at nsa.gov)
• Implementing Persistent Identifiers: Overview of Concepts, Guidelines and Recommendations (2006), by Hans-Werner Hilse and Jochen Kothe (PDF with commentary at cerl.org)
• Living Networks: Leading Your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy (c2002), by Ross Dawson (PDF files with commentary at livingnetworksbook.com)
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-Based Software Architectures (dissertation that introduced the REST architecture; 2000), by Roy T. Fielding (HTML and PDF at UC Irvine)
• Web Client Programming with Perl (first edition, 1997), by Clinton Wong (illustrated HTML at oreilly.com)
• The Strategist and the Web: A Guide to Internet Resources (1996), by James Kievit and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• The Strategist and the Web Revisited: An Updated Guide to Internet Resources (1996), by James Kievit and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Luci e Ombre di Google (The Dark Side of Google) (originally in Italian, ca. 2007; with translations to English, French, and other languages), by Ippolita Collective (PDF files with commentary at ippolita.net)
• Untangling the Web: Applications of the Internet and Other Information Technologies to Higher Learning, by David J. McArthur and Matthew W. Lewis (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Night Crawlers on the Web (2000), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)

• Social Media Mining: An Introduction (prepublication draft, with supplementary materials; 2014), by Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi, and Huan Liu (PDF with commentary at asu.edu)

• Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, and Strategies (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c2002), ed. by Murtha Baca, contrib. by Patricia Harpring, Colum Hourihane, Sara Shatford Layne, and Christine L. Sundt (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (c2008), by Raymond Yee (HTML at mashupguide.net)

• Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications: Common Lisp Edition (c2010), by Mark Watson (PDF at markwatson.com)
• Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications: Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition (c2010), by Mark Watson (PDF at markwatson.com)
• An Introduction to Ontology Engineering (c2020), by C. Maria Keet (PDF in South Africa)
• Linked Data Patterns: A Pattern Catalogue for Modelling, Publishing, And consuming Linked Data (2012), by Leigh Dodds and Ian Davis (multiple formats at dataincubator.org)
• Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (free electronic edition, c2011), by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (illustrated HTML with commentary at linkeddatabook.com)
• Validating RDF Data (c2018), by Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Iovka Boneva, and Dimitris Kontokostas (illustrated HTML with commentary at validatingrdf.com)
• Introduction to Information Retrieval (prepublication version; 2008), by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze (HTML and PDF with commentary at Stanford)

• Linked Data Patterns: A Pattern Catalogue for Modelling, Publishing, And consuming Linked Data (2012), by Leigh Dodds and Ian Davis (multiple formats at dataincubator.org)
• Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (free electronic edition, c2011), by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (illustrated HTML with commentary at linkeddatabook.com)
• Validating RDF Data (c2018), by Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Iovka Boneva, and Dimitris Kontokostas (illustrated HTML with commentary at validatingrdf.com)
• Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications: Common Lisp Edition (c2010), by Mark Watson (PDF at markwatson.com)
• Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications: Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition (c2010), by Mark Watson (PDF at markwatson.com)
• Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), ed. by Antonio Pareja-Lora, María Blume, Barbara Lust, and Christian Chiarcos (PDF at dropbox.com)

• The Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience (Society of American Archivists, 2009), by J. Gordon Daines and Cory L. Nimer (HTML at archivists.org)
• Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (c2008), by Raymond Yee (HTML at mashupguide.net)
• Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration (c2011), ed. by Eric Christopher Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall (page images at escholarship.org)

• E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009) (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision (London: JISC Collections, 2007), ed. by Leona Carpenter and Caren Milloy (PDF files with commentary at JISC Collections)
• An Assessment of Information Systems Capabilities Required To Support U.S. Materials Policy Decisions (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (2006), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
• A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services (2003), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
• Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Connie Clare, Maria J. Cruz, Elli Papadopoulou, James Savage, Marta Teperek, Yan Wang, Iza Witkowska, and Joanne Yeomans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools (final report to Library of Congress, 2006), by Karen Calhoun (PDF at loc.gov)
• Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery (Sacramento: Litwin Books, 2019), by Matthew Reidsma (PDF with commentary at reidsrow.com)
• Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (CLIR publication #160; c2013), by Council on Library and Information Resources (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Research, c2009), ed. by Anthony J. G. Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Michele Tolle (PDF files with commentary at Microsoft)
• Notes on Digital Computers and Data Processors, Prepared for Special Summer Conferences at the University of Michigan (supplements not included, some pages out of order; 1956), ed. by John W. Carr and Norman R. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (2000), ed. by Maxine K. Sitts (PDF at nedcc.org)
• Information Retrieval (second edition), by C. J. Van Rijsbergen (HTML in the UK)
• Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files (2000), by Gail M. Hodge (PDF at clir.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.