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Foil 68 T5: Multimedia Databases -- Overview

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Focus on the following two efforts in the reporting period:
  • Integration of the video server technology with database backend and Web frontend
    • Base VOD technology developed under separate contract
    • Goal: provide search and random access capabilities to the video server contents
    • Status: the framework designed and implemented, working prototype in place
  • Database support for VRML
    • Goal: provide efficient means to support object interaction and adaptability in VRML
    • Premise: flat file system storage inadequate in dynamic environment
    • Status: Illustra database selected, installed and tested. Working prototype in place.


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