Abstract
Infoscopes will be the microscopes and telescopes of the information systems of the future. The emergence of information highways and multimedia computing has resulted in exponential growth in the availability of multimedia data. Most information in computers used to be alphanumeric. Increasingly information has been appearing in graphic, image, audio, and video forms. Many approaches are being proposed for storing, retrieving, assimilating, harvesting, and prospecting information from disparate data sources. Infoscopes will allow users to access information independent of the locations and types of data sources and will provide a unified picture of information to a user. Due to their ability to represent information at different levels of abstractions these systems must recover and assimilate information from disparate sources. In this chapter, we discuss requirements of these emerging information systems. We discuss basic architecture and data models for these systems. Finally, we briefly present a few examples of early infoscopes.
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Jain, R. (1996). Infoscopes: Multimedia Information Systems. In: Furht, B. (eds) Multimedia Systems and Techniques. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 350. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1341-0_7
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