Multimedia database is the collection of interrelated multimedia data that includes text, graphics (sketches, drawings), images, animations, video, audio etc and have vast amounts of multisource multimedia data. The framework that manages different types of multimedia data which can be stored, delivered and utilized in different ways is known as multimedia database management system. There are three classes of the multimedia database which includes static media, dynamic media and dimensional media.
Content of Multimedia Database management system :
Media data – The actual data representing an object.
Media format data – Information such as sampling rate, resolution, encoding scheme etc. about the format of the media data after it goes through the acquisition, processing and encoding phase.
Media keyword data – Keywords description relating to the generation of data. It is also known as content descriptive data. Example: date, time and place of recording.
Media feature data – Content dependent data such as the distribution of colors, kinds of texture and different shapes present in data.
