Instant authoring with application output recording: taxonomy and usage in DIANE

Application output recording (AOR) is the task to record the output of an application so that the reproduction of the recording is sufficiently similar to the original output performance. The paper proposes a taxonomy to structure the task and describes a generic architecture covering the complete range of possible complexities in a recorder. The usage of AOR is described in the context of the European Union funded ACTS-project DIANE (Design, Implementation and Operation of a Distributed Annotation Environment) which implements a generic distributed multimedia annotation environment running on broadband systems.