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A multimedia information system has been developed to provide free or
structured search in a collection of historical documents belonging
to the Arquivo Público Mineiro, a state Government Institution responsible
for the gathering, preservation and distribution of historical documents
of Minas Gerais state, in Brazil. The Arquivo Público Mineiro stores
about 7 million document pages and nowadays has an incipient level of
informatization. The historical collection choosen for this work gathers
textual documents, photographs, images and video about the personal
and political life of Artur Bernardes, a former brasilian President
and one of the most important celebrity of the earlier republican period
of Brazilian political history. The collection suns up to 40,000 documents
and a subset of it was selected to be part of the proposed system.
The Multimedia Information System was developed with the most up-to-date
Information Technologies such as object-oriented database management
system, hypertext and World Wide Web publishing languages. The present
work defines a flexible client/server architecture which allows the
use of multiple hardware and software platforms proper to the implementation
of information systems based on the use of multimedia database to
integrate different types of complex data such as free-form text,
image, video and audio. User queries to the document database will
be provided through keywords or the aggregation of free text terms.
The system also provides, beyond all of this query capabilities, interfaces
for image processing during the presentation of result set for the
user.
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