The AEIOU hypermedia project

Austria is celebrating its millennium in 1996: although Austria is much older than 1000 years, the German name for Austria (Ostarici) is first found in a written document dated 996. For this celebration, one of the most ambitious networked multimedia presentations ever is currently being developed. For the name of the project, the acronym AEIOU has been chosen: one may read this as "Annotatable Electronic Interactive Ostarici Universal presentation" or as "Austria Erit In Orbe Ultima" ("Austria will be the best in the world"). Most aspects of Austria are covered by compiling a 50 GByte database that will be available as a series of CD-ROMs, as public kiosk applications and as a multi-platform presentation via the Internet. This paper describes the aim of the project, mentions some of the more unusual details and reports on the status of the development.<
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