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A framework for scalable delivery of digitized spaces

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We present a framework for scalable delivery of digitized environments. Today’s digital museums distribute images, text, sounds, and videos. Our work targets the distribution of a more advanced media type that allows users to independently and interactively explore digitized spaces. We describe a multidimensional and multiresolutional representation that maps directly to a set of communication channels. Clients receive data by subscribing to and unsubscribing from these channels. Client adaptation to current application and network conditions is performed by managing a working set of channels. This mechanism enables distribution of digitized environments to large groups of independent digital museum visitors.

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    David Gotz & Ketan Mayer-Patel

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Gotz, D., Mayer-Patel, K. A framework for scalable delivery of digitized spaces. Int J Digit Libr 5, 205–218 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-004-0106-8

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