DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES FOR MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION-SYSTEMS

The organization and management of multimedia information has been the subject of extensive research and development since the mid-1980s. Ho wever, a number of issues need to be addressed prior to developing a g eneral purpose multimedia information system. We discuss an abstract a rchitecture of such a system and highlight the issues of data modeling and multimedia information authoring, and also provide a systematic a rgument in favor of using an object-oriented approach over the relatio nal approach as the basic framework for developing a multimedia inform ation system. (C) 1996 SPIE and IS&T.