Applications of CD Technology
There are many ways this subject could be organized. We have taken the approach of trying to name some possible uses of CDs, and then some of the tools used to accomplish those purposes. This list is just a brief introduction since this site is mostly concerned with disc technology, not content development. We suggest you read some of the many excellent publications available on the Web and in print for more details on specific development software and applications. See our Bibliography for some references.
Purposes
The general categories of things to do with CDs include:
- Business
- Training
- Marketing and Sales support
- Publishing (software, electronic books, clip art collections ...)
- Data distribution
- Technical Support references
- Archiving
- Education
- K-12
- Personal Enrichment
- Courseware for use in traditional education programs
- Reference materials
- Entertainment
- Games
- Art
- Music
- Literature
- Reference
- Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Industrial & Personal Directories
- Data Collections of all types
Techniques
Articles:
- How to Copy Data from a CD by Deirdré Straughan, Adaptec Software Products Group
- Hot Audio by Monte McGuire 9/14/95
Classes of development tool used to prepare content for publication on CDs include:
- Sound engineering & editing tools
- Search & Retrieval Development tools
- Multimedia Authoring Systems
- MultiMedia Element Development Tools
- Audio
- Video
- 2D Graphics
- 3D Graphics
- Animation
- Hypertext
- Prepress
- Page Description Tools
- Clip art
- Database Systems
- Relational Database Systems
- Object and Image Database Systems
- Flatfile Database Systems
- Full-text Index Systems
- Imaging and Format Conversion
- Scanning
- OCR [Optical Character Recognition]
- Rekeying text
- Indexing
- Tagging, HTML & SHML
- Text & Word processor file format conversion
- Graphics format conversion
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