Towards the Integration of a Query Mechanism and Navigation for Retrieval of Data on Multimedia Documents

Abstract

Traditionally, two paradigms are discerned with respect to data retrieval [3, 17]: 1. A query mechanism enables the user to express conditions that characterize the data he is looking for. The Data Base Management System 1992 is responsible for retrieval of the data that satisfy these conditions. 2. Navigation or browsing can be used to investigate the content of the database by following links between related data.We will start with a discussion of these paradigms in the first two sections. We will then explore how both approaches can be combined. Finally, a practical implementation of the advocated approach will be presented. The implemented prototype supports access to a database on multimedia material. A more elaborated discussion of our ideas and results in this area can be found in [16]. © 1992, ACM. All rights reserved.