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Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

By : MARCEL KRATOCHVIL
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Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

By: MARCEL KRATOCHVIL

Overview of this book

Multimedia is the new digital frontier. Managers, software architects, administrators and developers need to fully comprehend this exciting new technology as its widespread use and acceptance cannot be ignored any longer."Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database" will give you a complete understanding of how to manage all data, especially multimedia. You will learn all the latest terminology, how to set up a database, load digital objects, search on them and even how to sell them. Whether you are a manager or database administrator, this book will give you the knowledge you need to take control of this rapidly growing and industry- changing technology. Technology which is transforming our lives.Starting with the basic principles of unstructured data and detailing the concepts behind multimedia warehouses and digital asset management systems, this book will describe how to load this data, search against it, display it intelligently, and deliver it to customers and users. Learn how all these concepts work within the Oracle 11g R2 database environment and how to tune the database effectively to manage it.Begin to learn about this new and exciting field and use it to give your business a competitive edge or give yourself the ability to take a leadership role in this exciting new computing genre.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading step-by-step


When loading objects in, from the filesystem, the following are the steps required to load that digital objects in:

  • Find the images: This involves looking across one or more file systems in multiple directories. It might involve looking for them in an FTP location or on remote websites.

  • Filter the results: This involves removing redundant images based on filename, suffix, and even directory location.

  • Extract metadata: Used when matching the metadata embedded in a digital object with an existing metadata. This is an optional step and can be done later. It might need to be done at this point in case the digital object needs to be rejected if there is no match, or if there is no match to be passed to another area for separate processing. In which case, rather than extracting all the metadata, only the meta value needed to match to the key is extracted.

  • Matching, combining, or replacing: If the previous step is not performed, then based on the image filename, can information...