From C.Cartledge@sheffield.ac.uk Wed Sep 29 18:15:01 1993 Received: from osiris.dknet.dk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA11334 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:46:08 +0100 X400-Received: by mta osiris.dknet.dk in /PRMD=minerva/ADMD=dk400/C=dk/; Relayed; Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:18:45 +0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:18:48 +0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:18:56 +0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:15:01 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:15:01 +0100 X400-Originator: C.Cartledge@sheffield.ac.uk X400-Recipients: sc24@dkuug.dk X400-Mts-Identifier: [/PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Message-Id: To: IST/31 , SC24 list Subject: Definition of multimedia Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 STATUS: Personal Contribution - my final thoughts on this matter - please feel free to ignore or distribute more widely. Multimedia: noun, adjective - the simultaneous use of more than one medium for communication. Note: Not necessarily digital or even electronic - but standardization should be on digital multimedia only and the systems for creating, storing delivering and controlling it. Not necessarily time-dependent or interactive, but these are essential requirements for JTC1 standardization. JTC1 Editors may care to use the word only as an adjective to ensure that the context is always clear. Rational: Multimedia is now an accepted English word (noun and adjective) and it would be contrary for JTC1 to adopt some other meaning. English examples of the use of multimedia as a noun follow: "multimedia can no longer be dismissed as mere marketing hype" Windows User Sep 93 Multimedia 93 Exhibition name Dictionary Definitions: Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (1983 edition): --noun. multimedia the use of a combination of different media of communication (in eg. entertainment, education): simultaneous presentation of several visual and/or sound entertainments. -- Also adjective. 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1991): multi-media, adjective. Designing or pertaining to a form of artistic educational or commercial communication in which more than one medium is used. Hence as noun. The first references are as follows: 1962, Times 26 February (Canada Sup) The first prong is a multi-media publicity campaign... 1962 Listener. Both Futurists and Dadaists had a keen interest in multi-media art... with the first modern spelling being 1970 Times. ...performances of the Military Tatto and of the multimedia rock musical "Stomp"... Regards Chris Cartledge Academic Computing Services, University of Sheffield, GB-Sheffield, S10 2TN Tel: 0742 824274, Fax: 0742 753899