http://www6.informatik.uni-erlangen.de:1200/Research/multi_media.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
Horst L├╝hrsen
Multimedia Database Systems
Introduction
Exploiting multimedia features makes presentation and processing of information much more expressive. The reasons are drastically larger semantic
richness of media datatypes and the much greater closeness to human
perception. It is evident by the rapid spreading of multimedia into all
fields of information processing that a large number of very
different applications need to have access to the same and increasing
amount of data in a flexible way. Since database systems have been
identified as the ideal means to guarantee those demands, multimedia
database systems promise to cover all requirements in managing data for
the near and far future. In addition to new datatypes and data models novel
techniques for storage and retrieval are also needed. In our data model
multimedia objects are composed of several so-called single-medium
objects pertaining to one medium only.
Research Issues
Data models for multimedia systems
Storage, selection, and transfer of single-media objects