ORGANISING THE KNOWLEDGE OF ARTS EXPERTS FOR HYPERMEDIA PRESENTATION

We present an ontology for intertextual studies, which is embedded in a multimedia authoring environment. In addition, we describe the attendant technical infrastructure. The knowledge-enhanced authoring tool allows cultural experts to specify intertextual relationships between works of art which may be represented in different media such as text, audio, image, or moving pictures. The result of the authoring process is a multimedia document with ontological markup. "Intertextual cultural threads" are thus, encoded in multimedia documents that can be viewed in browser environments supporting "EMMOs" (Enhanced Multimedia Meta Objects).