NEW SHAREWARE PLUG-IN
SCRAN, the multimedia Resource base for the study and celebration of human
history and material culture in Scotland (www.scran.ac.uk) already
provides access to thousands of multimedia objects including images,
movies, sound clips and Quicktime Virtual Reality. In a bold new move,
SCRAN is launching today a revolutionary type of Multimedia object,
MIMEtype RTSS. Real Time Scratch and Sniff allows, for the first time as
far as we can ascertain, end-user access to the olfactory aspects of
material culture. Objects already captured for the resource base include
the aromas of Malt Whisky, Haggis, Cloutie Dumpling and Highland Cattle,
and more will follow as and when the digitisation process allows. Access
to these objects requires the installation of the RTSS plug-in. The SCRAN
team have released this plugin into the public domain. It is currently
available for Netscape v3 and better, and a Microsoft Explorer version is
currently undergoing Beta testing. Instructions for downloading and
installation are at:
http://www.scran.ac.uk/RTSS/
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