For some time now, I have been working on converting an old final year's project (that I did at the EMMA programme at the Utrecht School of Arts) to the web. It is the so called 'Levensverhalen' project (or 'Stories of Life', in English). It is now time for a pre-launch, to make sure nothing is severely broken. So please have a look at: http://www.imagineic.nl/levensverhalen/.
Note that this site relies heavily on Windows Media. Although it was not my video format of choice, hosting in this format was offered to us for free via the Dutch Institute for Image and Sound. Additionally, non-Dutch visitors should be warned that, although the interface mainly icon based, subtitles are only offered in Dutch. Immigrants were allowed to speak in their native language.
The website should work on all popular browsers running Windows or Mac OS X, with the proper codecs installed. The main challenge was to convert the Macromedia Director based offline front end to something that could work on-line. The on-line version has now been implemented using PHP and a combination of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML (AJAX).
One of the goals that have not been met at this stage is the goal of creating an interactive documentary experience: based on a hidden 'context' tag, follow up fragments should be recommended. It is hoped that this will be implemented soon.
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