Digital Media For Machines

The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a globally network of interconnected information elements represented in a standard form using a dialect of SGML called HyperText Markup Language (HTML), using the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for the transport of information, employing a uniform addressing scheme for locating resources on the Web…

Inside MPEG-7

Before starting this page I must warn the reader that MPEG-7 has more elements of abstractness, compared to previous MPEG standards that may make reading it more difficult than other pages. With this warning, let’s start from some definitions that will hopefully facilitare understanding of the MPEG-7 standard. Element Definition Examples…

A World Of Peers

My sudden, although not unplanned, departure from DAVIC gave me the opportunity to realise some ideas I had been mulling over since some time. With MPEG and DAVIC I had dealt with machines that process data in a sophisticated, well-programmed way, but as intermediaries between humans or, at most, between…