There is now so much data on the Web that managing it with conventional tools is becoming almost impossible. To manage this data, provide interoperability and warehousing between multiple data sources and systems, and extract information from the databases and warehouses, various tools are being developed. In fact, developments in multimedia databa

Introduction. MANAGING MULTIMEDIA DATABASES. An Overview. Architectures. Data Models. Functions. Emerging Technologies. Products and Prototypes. MINING MULTIMEDIA DATABASES. An Overview. Text Mining. Image Mining. Video Mining. Emerging Technologies for Multimedia Mining. Products and Prototypes. Summary and Directions. References. Appendices. Index.