Developing a municipal multimedia information system

Multimedia information systems are getting commonplace as kiosk systems in public areas or as online information systems in the Internet. The paper describes the development of a municipal information system that can be used in both domains. In the public area, an ATM based client server structure is used which provides gateways for Internet access. The system offers retrieval of authority information using intuitive and associative access modes. We discuss architectural models and tools which can be used as a system environment. For content representation, HTML is extended in order to reflect the designers' impression of such a system.