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The HERON Project — Multimedia Database Support for History and Human Sciences

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Informatik ’98

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The interdisciplinary HERON project investigates the impact of multimedia applications from the humanities, in particular heraldry, on future database technology. We present first evaluation results of querying image databases by visual content. Also the requirements of a digital workbench for art historians are described. Here we present an approach how to tackle the complex problem of exchanging multimedia documents over the internet.

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Kießling, W., Erber-Urch, K., Balke, WT., Birke, T., Wagner, M. (1998). The HERON Project — Multimedia Database Support for History and Human Sciences. In: Dassow, J., Kruse, R. (eds) Informatik ’98. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72283-7_31

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