The MEDIA research group is part of the School of Computer and
Communication Sciences at the EPFL.
The group is deeply involved in research and training activities that
relate to complex
structured documents
and, their use through global information systems over the
Internet.
The representation of electronic documents has moved away from the simple
encoding practises of early usage, towards richer encoding that indicate the
structure of the document as well as multimedia and metadata
extensions.
There has been a tendency towards developping and supporting standards
for this task. XML (eXtended Markup Language), is one of the well-known of these
standards and is currently supported by an increasing variety of related
standards and tools that provide efficient management of "document oriented"
data on the Web.
Our research is about
document models, languages and
methods
that encompass the use of electronic documents, as processable units of
information, in Web-based environments.
Offering new paradigms - based on rich user interfaces - for
authoring
and
reusing
structured information as well as
supporting collaborative
processes
among nomadic users is of major concern in the MEDIA research group.
MEDIA Website has a new look in accordance with the recent EPFL
guidelines
The EPFL has decided to adopt new graphics standards. Our Website is
based on XML technologies which promote a clear distinction between content
and rendering ... it was very easy to adapt its appearance.
New release of AXEL Javascript library is available for download
The AXEL (Adaptable XML Editing Library) Javascript library is an open
source software that provides XML authoring facilities for the Web. It comes
from research done in the framework of the Integrated European Project
PALETTE in collaboration with the
WAM
(Web, Adapation and Multimedia) team at INRIA Grenoble.
The library is currently evolving thanks to our participation in a
project funded by the Confederation’s innovation promotion agency
CTI
with our partner
MadeinLocal.
More detail in our
Software
page
ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne won the Mark Logic Demo Jam session at XML Prague
2010
Markus Pilman from the Systems Group at ETH Zurich arrived first with
a demonstration of "iZorba - developing iPhone apps entirely in #XQuery",
while Stéphane Sire from the Media Research Group at EPFL arrived second
with a demonstration of "auto-editable Web sites with XTiger XML and AXEL in
the browser".
They also presented papers at the conference. The proceedings are
available
online
