A multimedia system needs a mechanism to communicate with its environment, the Internet,
clients, and applications. MPEG-7 provides a standard metadata format for global …

In this article we claim that the linguistic-centred view within hypermedia systems needs
refinement through a semiotic-based approach before real interoperation between media …

Multimedia Database Systems: Where are we now? Page 1 Multimedia Database Systems:
Where are we now? Harald Kosch and Mario Döller Institute of Information Technology …

The user's need to find information on the Internet is growing, like the Internet itself is
growing into an ever more tangled web of information. To find information on the Internet …

In this chapter we investigate the underlying structural requirements for media-aware
knowledge spaces. We discuss the merging of media generation and annotation to facilitate …

With the advanced growth of the Internet, people are expecting systems to support variety of
medias. This has therefore leads to new challenges such as the requirements to have new …

The ETIC scientific program aims to enhance insular tropical environment research contents
from biologists to general public through information and communication Web technologies …

The Mirror DBMS is a prototype database system especially designed for multimedia and
web retrieval. From a database perspective, this year's purpose has been to check whether …

With large volumes of data being exchanged on the Internet, query languages are needed to
bridge the gap between databases and the web. Furthermore, the differentiation in data …