Multimedia data is a challenge for data management. The semantics of traditional alphanumeric data are mostly explicit, unique, and self-contained, but the semantics of multimedia data are usually dynamic, diversiform, and varying from one user’s perspective to another’s. When dealing with different applications in which multimedia data is involved, great challenges arise. We first introduce a novel data model called Information Networking Model (INM), which can represent the dynamic and complex semantic relationships of the real world. In this chapter, we show how to use INM to capture dynamic and complex semantics relationship of multimedia data. Using INM, we present a multimedia modeling mechanism. The general idea of this novel mechanism is to place the multimedia data in a complex semantic environment based on the real world or application requirements, and then users can make use of both contextual semantics and multimedia metadata to retrieve the precise results they expect.
An Overview of the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture