NMIA: Networked Multimedia Information Access
Information retrieval is evolving toward the broader field of information access, which especially relates to networking and use of multimedia.
Multimedia
- Media types
- Media types for each sense, digitization, encoding, compression
- Real time
- Synchronization of audio and video, continuous delivery --> 30fps, ...
- Storage
- Amount of information is enormous, requiring tertiary storage, caching, optical disks, ...
- Projects at Virginia Tech
- Surveys, DVI, Integrator, GeoSim, FDDI, NMFS/HyTime, MPEG Compression
Networking
- Lower levels
- Ethernet, FDDI, ATM
- Searching
- Z39.50, WAIS: shows MARC origins
- Linking
- HTTP, HTML, HTML+: World-Wide Web, Mosaic
- Browsing
- gopher: menus, forms
- MHEG
- Applications, interaction, linking, scripting
Open Research
- HCI
- Rules, guidelines, design methods
- Next generation protocols
- using objects, accessing and anchoring inside objects, methods
- Task orientation
- Integration (actual, conceptual), not oriented to hardware or software or network
- Scaling up of database, number of users
- EOS will lead to petabytes, users will be in millions, links will be hard and soft and there be very large numbers
- MHEG
- Applications, interaction, linking, scripting