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Using Multi-user Hypertextual Glossaries in Multimedia-based Learning

Luigi Colazzo, Marco Costantino

Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 1996, September 30 – October 2, 1996, Lisbon.

Abstract

In this work we present a object class named G_lossary. The instances of the class G_lossary (Glossaries) are specialised hypertexts for a multi-user didactic hypertextual environment. An object belonging to the class G_lossary is an aggregation of objects. Among the classes comprising the class G_lossary, the class D_efinition assumes relevant importance. Each glossary can include one or more objects of the class D_efinition. An instance of D_efinition is a specialised object that allows the display of the glossary’s definitions. A glossary replies to the requests coming from other hypertextual objects in the environment by sending back to the calling hypertext copies of objects belonging to the class D_efinition. The copies received by a calling hypertext become components of the hypertext. A calling hypertext can reside on any authorised remote machine connected to the G_lossary server machine. Since the instances of the class D_efinition are themselves hypertextual objects, they can also include starting points of links and, therefore, they keep all their properties also when included in a calling hypertext. The class G_lossary is an example of what we consider didactic hypertextual materials. The objects belonging to the class G_lossary have been implemented in Openscript involving the use of the DB3 standard libraries. The dynamic word-stemming algorithm has been coded in a Dynamic Link Library and is written in C language. The G_lossary server is implemented using a standard Unix NFS server.

hypertextglossariesmultimedia learningdidactic environments

How to cite

Luigi Colazzo, Marco Costantino (1996). Using Multi-user Hypertextual Glossaries in Multimedia-based Learning. Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 1996, September 30 – October 2, 1996, Lisbon.

BibTeX entry for reference managers (EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley)
@inproceedings{colazzo1996multi,
  title = {Using Multi-user Hypertextual Glossaries in Multimedia-based Learning},
  author = {Luigi Colazzo and Marco Costantino},
  year = {1996},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (EuroAIED 1996)},
  url = {https://www.advanced-finance.com/paper-multi-user-hypertextual-glossaries-multimedia-learning.html}
}
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