Multimedia Data Mining in Digital Libraries : Standards and Features

The digital library retrieves, collects, stores and preserves the digital data. For this purpose, there is need to convert different formats of information such as text, images, video, audio, etc. The data mining techniques are popular while conversion of the multimedia files in the libraries. The present paper attempted to define the term data mining. It also covered different data mining features and standards. The paper explained about the Architecture of data mining, which contains the stages of the data mining such as (1) domain understanding; (2) data selection; (3) cleaning and preprocessing; (4) discovering patters; (5) interpretation; and (6) reporting and using discovered knowledge. It is emphasized that there is need to develop multimedia data mining techniques and standards in the library for conversion of multimedia information.