Toward Intelligent Representation of Database Content

We address the problem of automating the display of database records in an intelligent way. By this we mean the synthesis of complete multimedia documents from database records. We propose an architecture for mapping diverse data stored in a database to markup language (SGML) programs. These programs are ready for final presentation. The mapping is based on a computational extension of the linguistic concept of register. The resulting presentation represents data as information in an intelligent way. General conditions for such a system are discussed. Our own treatment of registers as rule based computational structures is offered with some early results on the behavior of rule based registers. 1 Introduction We address the problem of automating the display of database records in an intelligent way. By this we mean the synthesis of complete multimedia documents from databases which are not otherwise document databases. Our databases may be object oriented databses with multimedia data..