DocumentCode
316280
Title
DelaunayMM: a visual framework for multimedia presentation
Author
Cruz, Isabel F. ; Lucas, Wendy T.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA
fYear
1997
fDate
23-26 Sep 1997
Firstpage
212
Lastpage
219
Abstract
We introduce a visualization framework called DelaunayMM for querying and presenting multimedia information in distributed databases. Users can tailor the layout of virtual documents containing multimedia information at the same time as they specify their contents in an intuitive yet formal way, using a Web-available interface. The data model that we propose is object-oriented, and the query and presentation languages are declarative and incorporate layout constraints. Our framework encompasses the retrieval of heterogeneous distributed information whose data model does not need to conform to the one used by DelaunayMM
Keywords
Internet; data structures; data visualisation; distributed databases; document handling; multimedia computing; object-oriented databases; query languages; query processing; user interfaces; visual languages; Delaunay; World Wide Web interface; data model; distributed databases; heterogeneous distributed information retrieval; layout constraints; multimedia presentation; object-oriented database; presentation languages; query languages; querying; virtual documents; visual framework; Data models; Data visualization; Database languages; Distributed databases; Image databases; Information retrieval; Multimedia databases; Object oriented databases; Spatial databases; Visual databases;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Visual Languages, 1997. Proceedings. 1997 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Isle of Capri
ISSN
1049-2615
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8144-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VL.1997.626585
Filename
626585
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