Traditionally Web page authors create several different versions of content
with a range of bandwidth requirements related to various user network acc
ess rates. The challenge when dealing with multimedia content is how we can
provide customised content, while retaining the essential information and
not replicating the data. It should be possible to provide automatically th
e key information presented by the content author for any level of user, re
gardless of the hardware and network capabilities of the client device.