Howard Beck IFAS Information Technologies College of Agriculture and Natural Resources University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida hwb@agen.ufl.edu June, 2001

UF Multimedia Database System Architecture and Applications

System Architecture
	I.	Data Modeling Language Underlying formal language for describing domain models and data.
	II.	Data Visualization Layer The main way for browsing and editing the database.
	III.	Linguistics Layer A thesaurus of domain terms, parsing and interpretation of phrases.
	IV.	Database Implementation Physical implementation of database.
	V.	XML/CORBA/RMI Mechanisms for exchanging data with clients and other servers.
	VI.	Presentation Layer Applications utilizing media content are built at this layer.
Applications
	I.	Ethnobotany Example
	II.	Tropical Fruits Distance Education Project
	III.	Distance Diagnostics/Crop Pest Management using Digital Images
	IV.	NASA ALS Research Environment
	V.	Art History Prototype on Surrealist Photography
	VI.	Music Example
		Summary