Managing networked multimedia data

1.1 Background We will present a system we developed for networked access to multimedia resources. This research area hasn ' t received the a t tent ion it deserves from the mul t imedia communi ty (Adie, 1993). It is influenced by many other fields in computer science. The most important are research on information retrieval and on da tabases , par t i cu la r ly so-ca l led n e x t g e n e r a t i o n da tabases (Cattell, 1991). Because of the mul t imedia nature of the data involved, research on novel user interfaces is also relevant.