Multi-Platform CD-ROM

Platform independent CD-ROMs are essential if one wants the contents to have some longevity in a fast changing technological context. What is the point of buying an expensive art CD-ROM, about the same price as an art book, if five years from now you can no longer look at it. Another issue is that if all CD-ROM are intended for a single platform, then it will naturally stick to the most popular one, preventing (through what economist call network externalities) other platforms, even technologically superior to compete freely on the market, for lack of CD-ROMs and other contents. This is typically the case for free software platforms. This page is devoted to documents on that topic, as well as ressources, commercial or other, for the production of platform independant CD-ROM.

The CD/Web connection -Standards from the Web and the CD-ROM Time Machine Ron Gustavson, EMedia Professional, March 1997
Don't Tread on Me Data David R. Guenette, EMedia Professional, May 1997
One way to make platform independant CD-ROMs is to use standard web technology. Ron Gustavson gives a discussion of various solutions available on the market, as well as some motivations and examples of products

P.S. see my collection of other CD-ROM informations

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