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Multimedia Database Systems — The Notions and the Issues

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In this article, we give an overview of the usage of database systems in the emerging field of multimedia computing systems. We motivate that management of multimedia information requires support of temporal relationships, interactive operations, high data volume, and transport of multimedia data. The solutions achieved so far vary to which extend multimedia applications are supported. We suggest to use the notions of hybrid, structural, behavioral, and distributed multimedia systems to classify them. We emphasize the current issues in the area of multimedia database research. Multimedia data modeling, content-based retrieval, continuous storage management, and a distributed architecture are the constituents of multimedia database management systems. The developments achieved so far with the AMOS prototype currently under development at our institutes serve as an illustrating example of current efforts. Specifically, the design of a datatype for audio information, the modeling of meta information and of interactive multimedia presentations, the development of an object manager for continuous objects, and the integration of an information retrieval system in our system are described.

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    Thomas C. Rakow & Erich J. Neuhold

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Rakow, T.C., Neuhold, E.J., Löhr, M. (1995). Multimedia Database Systems — The Notions and the Issues. In: Lausen, G. (eds) Datenbanksysteme in Büro, Technik und Wissenschaft. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79646-3_1

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