Method of organizing and presenting the structure of a multimedia system and for presenting this structure to a person involved, in particular a user person or an author person, and a software package having such organization and presentation facility

Abstract

A method is given for presentation of a multimedia software package, that comprises multiple assets, which can be presented in various combinations in a dialogue with a person involved. In particular, the method uses an explicit information structure description, in which multiple multimedia building blocks are being linked in accordance with an information model that is especially tailored towards a particular application domain. The information model allows expressing in the information structure description of dependency relations stating or implying that certain parts of the multimedia software package should be accessed before other parts. Also, the information model is being expanded with softwared facilities, using which the information structure description is accessible to said person involved, who as a user person can also directly access all multimedia building blocks. Using these, those parts of the software that have already been visited by the user involved become especially marked, and also those parts of the software that can be accessed subsequently by the user person subject to any dependency relations, also become especially marked. In addition, the information model may be expanded with softwared facilities supporting an author person to develop said information structure description under integration with multimedia content creation tools and without programming effort.