Workshop report: the first ACM international workshop on multimedia databases (MMDB 2003) at ACM CIKM 2003

The motivation for organizing a workshop on “Multimedia Databases” at ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2003) was the fact that more and more multimedia data are now available and effective management of these multimedia data is becoming a critical need. As a consequence, multimedia databases have emerged as an important research area. A multimedia database management system must provide the support for managing text, video, audio and image data, and it must also manage multimedia data types. In addition, the relationships between the objects and the representation of the spatial and/or temporal relationships may involve the extensions to the database management system.