A DBMS-Based Multimedia Archiving Teleservice Incorporating Mail

. In this paper, a teleservice for archiving and retrieving multimediadocumentsusingpublicnetworks is described.Thisteleserviceencouragesabroadrange of multimedia archiving applications. The described implementation is based on standardized multimediamailand suitable for an asynchronous access mechanism. Theoriginalityofthiswork is theintegrationofmultimediamailwithsimplestandalone archive clients for heterogeneous platforms and an archive server which is based on an object-oriented DBMS. The modeling of the server is described indepthshowingthecontributionsofobject -orienteddatabasetechnologyfortherealization of generic electronic archives that deal with structured multimedia documents. Helpfulhintsandimportantdesignsuggestionsfortheimplementationofadvanced archive functionality are provided. Furthermore, functionality for efficient access on the client side is outlined. A sample application showing a Multimedia Calendar of Events is sketched as well. 1 Introduction Advances in hardw..