A multimedia temporal database model. (c2006)

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.