Project code: DMW
Research group: Database Architectures and Information Access (INS1)

Digital Media Warehouse is a warehouse, i.e. a vast and unrestricted collection, of digital media. Where digital media may range from human edited text to streams of sensor data, the management of a DMW brings many interesting (research) challenges:

• The development of a reference framework for feature detectors, which extract relevant feature values from different kinds of multi-media object.
• A database architecture for their storage.
• Query techniques to discover and cope with semi-structured data.

The DMW project has focussed on the added value from combining these pieces for support of content-based retrieval in an integrated and scalable solution, unlike the isolated solutions pursued in research projects within these separate domains. 

More about this project: the DMW homepage.

Members
Martin Kersten, Albrecht Schmidt, Menzo Windhouwer

Group reports
Publications of Digital Media Warehouses

Cooperation
The Telematica Institute sponsored this project ran from June 1 1998 till May 31 2002. During these four years CWI researchers cooperated with:

• University of Twente
• KPN Research
• Telematica Institute
• Perot Systems