Mnemovie

1998

R&D
The software tool, Mnemovie, was developed by the artist, in collaboration with a professional multimedia developer, Adam Hinshaw.
The project arose from an earlier prototype that employed a propriety application (Macromedia Director) to construct the system framework; conceptual and technical elements. the PathScape project.
specification data for the Director application was prepared by the software professional. The file movie_data.xml contains a description of the tags and the layout of the program source code specific to the manipulation of the movie files contained in the adjacent Movies directory. The modular construction of the source code enables the artist to expand the scale of the instruction set according to the requirements of each new interactive Model.
The XML-file structure throughout was based on each <track> having a <movie id> for the forward motion movie and a different <move id> for a reverse motion movie. From each <track> links to other movies could be created. The Beta 1.0 used the following structure (sample):
<track id="PD"
 <movie id="PZF" file="movies/PulledZfore.mov" dir="F" ><!--F-->
<link side="L" start_time="00:00:13" end_time="00:00:14"
movie_id="11" link_start_time="00:00:00" />
    </movie>
<movie id="PZB" file="movies/PulledZback.mov" dir="B" ><!-- B -->
    <link side="R" start_time="00:00:12" end_time="00:00:13"
movie_id="R11" link_start_time="00:00:00" />
    </movie>
</track>
As experimentation progressed iteratively, the <link_> group of tags operating within the system were increased and thus offered additional linking possibilities for schema design.

Further discussion: Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)