Abstract:
Multimedia databases are becoming an increasingly important area for research and
application in the entire field of database systems, therefore multimedia databases is
considered a new topic of research which is still very active and highly demanded. T emporal
databases aroused long time ago, since users started requesting databases that support the
time dimension feature, still this subject is under progress and research. This paper explores
the nature and implications for Multimedia and Temporal database models with an overview
about the nature if both models. Furthermore, this paper imposes a description and
implementation for a new model; A Temporal Multimedia Database Model. Suggestions for
a further work are proposed to cover the gaps discussed concerning this topic. The paper
concludes with a brief discussion of the appropriateness and limitations of a temporal
multimedia database model till our current time.
