Where To Buy CD-ROMs

Interactive Education: Transitioning CD-ROMs to the Web

CD-ROM publishing of interactive multimedia has generally taken the model of the printing press and transferred it into the new digital medium. Even when presented as interactive multimedia, the content itself is frozen in time and not updatable. This is frustrating since a new CD-ROM becomes old hat as soon as it is pressed. More than a year ago we integrated most of Jane Goodall's fieldwork a...

ATA Packet Interface for CD - ROMs Small Form Factor Committee

Characterization of CD-ROMs for Emulation-Based Access

Memory institutions have already collected large amounts of digital objects, predominantly CD-ROMs. Some of them are already inaccessible with current systems, most of them will be soon. Emulation offers a viable strategy for long-term access to these publications. However, these collections are huge and the objects are missing technical metadata to setup a suitable emulated environment. In thi...

Going Where the Ad Leads You: On High Advertised Prices and Searching Where to Buy

An important role of informative advertising is to inform consumers of the simple fact that the shop that advertises sells a particular product. This information may help consumers to save on their search activities: instead of wandering around, a consumer can simply visit the shop that has advertised, knowing that there he can find the commodity he is looking for. The implications of this simp...

Getting to grips with "interactivity": helping teachers assess the educational value of CD-ROMs

Many commercial CD-ROMs are now being marketed as suitable for home and school use, increasingly promoted as covering the National Curriculum. However, such promises are failing to be realised because many CD-ROMS are poorly constructed, consisting simply of a mishmash of images, sounds and video that offer little more than light entertainment. The aim of this paper is to provide guidance on as...