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A mail-based teleservice architecture for archiving and retrieving dynamically composable multimedia documents

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Multimedia Transport and Teleservices (COST237 1994)

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In this paper, a teleservice for archiving and retrieving multimedia documents using public networks is described. This teleservice encourages a broad range of commercially applicable multimedia archiving applications suitable for an asynchronous access mechanism. It is based on an integrated architecture comprising stand alone archive clients and a multimedia archive server which is realized using a database management system. Archive clients access the archive server via an extended X.400 Multimedia Mail Teleservice. This teleservice reflects the specific requirements of dealing with multimedia documents in a networked environment by supporting a global reference mechanism. The archive server can dynamically compose new versions from an original archived multimedia document including extractions of subsequences of continuous data streams, coding and quality transformations. Thus, users can retrieve multimedia documents that explicitly reflect his individual workstation environment,information needs, and preferences. Since this feature allows to determine in advance the data volume to be retrieved and transmitted, users have more control over their service charge. The concept, architecture, and functionality of the teleservice as well as a sample instantiation of the proposed architecture showing an application called multimedia calendar of events are described. A comprehensive discussion of this prototypical implementation provides our experiences.

This work is partially granted by DeTeBerkom GmbH, Berlin, as project “Globally Accessible Multimedia Archives (GAMMA)” within the BERKOM II initiative.

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  1. GMD - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), Dolivostraße 15, D-64293, Darmstadt, Germany

    Heiko Thimm & Thomas C. Rakow

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Thimm, H., Röhr, K., Rakow, T.C. (1994). A mail-based teleservice architecture for archiving and retrieving dynamically composable multimedia documents. In: Hutchison, D., Danthine, A., Leopold, H., Coulson, G. (eds) Multimedia Transport and Teleservices. COST237 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58759-4_26

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