Multimedia Databases: An Object-Relational Approach

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Summary: Constructive Compendium!
Review: This is an excellent book which brings together a lot of diverse topics, both theory and procedure, which together offer real insight into the burdensome task of handling reams of multimedia data.

Fact is, databases have been build largely for text data, and so the problems and complexities of beginning to deal with the proliferating amount of our media output has received scant attention. I think Dunckley's book offers a very sophisticated understanding of how to begin to get a handle on video, image, and audio information. All kinds of issues are broached that all interrelates to ultimately point to a startling realization: our current databases, search engines, query languages, are only just the beginning, as they were built to handle textual data, they will be eclipsed eventually by an onslaught of searchable, indexed, high-quality visual-spacial information: Multimedia Databases: An Object-Relational Approach is more that just a textbook to a new multi-disciplined, and integrated field, but a guidebook to the immediate future.

Undertones of our immersing future, you read it in Duckley's work first.