1.   In particular, we will examine multimedia databases, multimedia in online systems, the related area of videoconferencing and interactive, multimedia marketing.

2.   To some extent, all that we have so far said about multimedia development is really a description of multimedia databases.

3.   The concept of multimedia databases is not new, of course.

4.   This last approach using linkages between text fields in the database records looks like being the most promising model for multimedia database design.

5.   However, in a true multimedia database the non-text elements may include can photographs, diagrams, motion video, spreadsheets, program code, and digitised sound.

6.   In fact, a multimedia database may be called upon to store anything you can store on a computer or use in an information application.