Multimedia Reporting: Building Multimedia Presentations with Query Answers

A multimedia report is a multimedia presentation which integrates data returned by one or more queries to a multimedia database, thus extending the concept of report familiar in traditional structured databases. In such a scenario information retrieval consists in building a continuous presentation in which the retrieved data are located, connected, synchronized and coherently presented to a user. We discuss modelling of multimedia reports in terms of data co-ordination and synchronization, based on a synchronization model we have defined for specifying complex multimedia presentations. As in a report the user can browse the returned data without loosing consistency, in a multimedia report moving along the presentation time requires appropriate synchronization to be guaranteed.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: MIS
• Authors: Augusto Celentano, Ombretta Gaggi
• Keywords: MIS 2001, Multimedia, Multimedia Database, Multimedia Presentations, Multimedia Report