Postdoctoral position
Adaptive editing and publishing of multimedia documents with aesthetical constraints
Keywords: adaptable document formats, publishing constraints, formatting, document post-processing
Context
This position is available in the C2M project. Funded by ANR, the C2M project addresses the issue of collaborative multimedia publishing environments. Partners of C2M are INA (French national audiovisual archives), CNRS Heudiasyc laboratory (UTC), the WAM team (INRIA and LIG), two companies, Amexio and Kelis, and the UTC/ICS unit. Scheduled for 24 months, the project aims at merging XML publishing environments, collaborative Enterprise Content Management systems and multimedia editors.
The post-doc fellow will work in close cooperation with the CNRS Heudiasyc team at UTC where another post-doc fellow will be hired (refer to the job description).
Job description
In publishing chains, such as those developed with Scenari, automating the whole process is a high priority. However, automatization reaches limits at the publishing step. Languages and authoring tools are available for producing "by hand" high quality documents, but the situation is quite different for automatic processes that generate formatted documents from stored contents. The issue is even more difficult when it comes to multimedia documents and contents created collaboratively.
The objective is to design a publishing process that allows contents to be automatically (or at least semi-automatically) adapted to spatial and temporal constraints, aiming at high quality rendering. For instance, how to distribute space in a web page to avoid large white area, make reading easier, or enable publishing in a given paper format?
Expected results
- An auto-adaptable document format for web publishing that also enables printing: handling space and time constraints and taking into account aesthetical parameters.
- Associated rendering algorithms.
- Additional manual adaptation mechanisms for post-processing the results generated by the automatic process (adjusting positioning parameters in a WYSIWYG way, for instance). Consistency of the edited content with the canonical content will be preserved (layout metadata should be kept to avoid further manual editing when canonical content changes).
Duration and location
The position is for up to 18 months, starting as soon as possible, at INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin site (near Grenoble, France).
Experience and skills
- Significant experience and acknowledged skills in software design and development.
- Ph.D. in computer science with a special focus on the web, multimedia, or document engineering.
Application
Applications must be sent to <Cecile dot Roisin at inria dot fr> by October 31, 2009 with:
- a detailed resume,
- a motivation letter, with a positioning w.r.t. the post-doc topic,
- pointers to the most important publications,
- recommendation letters and references.
Bibliographic references
Olivier Aubert, Yannick Prié.Advene: an open-source framework for integrating and visualising audiovisual metadata. Open Source Competition: Technical presentation and overview paper. Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference, Augsburg, Sep. 2007
Greg J. Badros, Alan Borning, Kim Marriott, Peter Stuckey. Constraint cascading style sheets for the Web. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology. UIST '99. ACM, New York, 73-82. 1999.
Thomas Bottini, Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Bruno Bachimont. Modèle et outils documentaires multimédia pour la mise en tableau de partitions, Documents Numériques, à paraître, 2009.
Fateh Boulmaiz, Cécile Roisin, Frédéric Bes, Improving formatting documents by coupling formatting systems, Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, November 20-22, 2003, Grenoble, France
Stéphane Crozat. Scenari, la chaîne éditoriale libre, Accès Libre, Eyrolles, 2007.
Romain Deltour, Cécile Roisin. The LimSee3 Multimedia Authoring Model, in Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, DocEng 2006, pp. 173-175, ACM Press, October 2006.
Nathan Hurst, Kim Marriott, Peter Moulder. Toward tighter tables, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, November 2-4, 2005, Bristol, United Kingdom
Angelo Di Iorio, Fabio Vitali, Stefano Zacchiroli. Wiki content templating. In WWW 2008, Beijing, China, pp. 615 – 624. ACM, 2008.
Gil Loureiro, Francisco Azevedo. Constrained XSL formatting objects for adaptive documents, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, November 2-4, 2005, Bristol, United Kingdom
Vincent Quint, Irène Vatton. Structured Templates for Authoring Semantically Rich Documents, in Proceedings of the 2007 international workshop on semantically aware documentprocessing and indexing, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Vol. 259, pages 41-48, ACM, 2007.
Sébastien Laborie, Jérôme Euzenat, Nabil Layaïda. Adaptation spatio-temporelle et hypermédia de documents multimédia. Atelier Représentation et Raisonnement sur le Temps et l'Espace (RTE), 2008.
Muriel Jourdan, Nabil Layaïda, Cécile Roisin, Loay Sabry-Ismaïl, L Tardif. Madeus, an authoring environment for interactive multimedia documents. In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM international Conference on Multimedia (Bristol, United Kingdom, September 13-16, 1998). MULTIMEDIA '98. ACM, New York, NY, 267-272. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/290747.290780