Providing access to a multimedia archive using the World Wide Web and an object-relational database management system

Reformatting information currently held in databases into Web pages requires significant effort in both creating the pages initially and their subsequent maintenance. We avoid these costs by coupling a Web server indirectly to a multimedia database using additional software we have developed. This software layer translates Web requests for information into SQL queries, and generates Web pages dynamically to display the results to the user. The method we have developed allows users to query the database directly and browse for information.