Towards a universal viewer for digital content

Kenton McHenry; Michal Ondrejcek; Luigi Marini; Rob Kooper; Peter Bajcsy

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2011.04.077

Towards a universal viewer for digital content

Kenton McHenry, Michal Ondrejcek, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Peter Bajcsy

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In this paper we present a distributed setup for the viewing of digital data within a large number of formats. Through the use of software servers 3^rd party software is automated and made available as functions that can be called within other programs. Using multiple machines containing software and running software servers a conversion service is built. Being built on top of 3^rd party software the conversion service is easily extensible and thus can be made to support a large number of conversions. We use this service to build a "universal" viewer by converting given files among a large set of file formats to a relatively small subset of formats that are renderable by a given viewer (e.g. web browser). We describe this service and the underlying software servers as well as the future directions we are planning on taking.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	732-739
Number of pages	8
Journal	Procedia Computer Science
Volume	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2011.04.077
State	Published - 2011
Event	11th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2011 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: Jun 1 2011 → Jun 3 2011

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Conversion
Preservation
Software servers

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General Computer Science

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