Workshop on Visual Database Systems for the Marine Sciences,San Francisco, California

建议举办一次讲习班，研究 可视化数据库系统在海洋生物学研究中的应用。 视觉 数据库系统将关系数据库与广泛的视频或 图像库。 这样的系统可以用来构建通用的 关于海洋的事实和视觉信息相结合的资源 生物及其环境。 这种资源可以 支持一系列研究、环境评估， 海洋科学的教育应用。 这时就出现了物流危机的管理 与分类工作有关的视觉信息， 海洋研究。 许多视觉信息已经被 收集，但基本上无法访问。 收集的量 各种自动化和远程操作的车辆正在增加。 此外，它越来越难以处理 现有和新收集的材料。 原型显示了可视化数据库的技术能力 这些系统满足了海洋科学的需求。 的窗口 目前存在的机会，使用可视化数据库系统来处理 上述问题。 必须做出决定， 可视化数据库系统的功能，这将导致"最好的 经济上可行的格式"， 用户之间的网站，关于发展的优先事项， 持续维护的后勤保障。 这种系统的潜在用户的投入将使开发 全面的资源和工作站交付环境 以当前和未来的申请标准为指导。

A workshop is proposed to investigate the potential application of visual database systems to research in marine biology. Visual database systems link relational databases with extensive video or image libraries. Such systems can be used to construct a generic resource of combined factual and visual information about marine organisms and about their environments. Such a resource could support a range of research, environmental assessment, and educational applications in the marine sciences. At this time there is a logistics crisis in the management of visual information relating to taxonomic work needed to support marine research. Much visual information has already been collected, but is essentially inaccessible. The amount collected by various automated and remotely operated vehicles is increasing. Furthermore, it is getting increasingly difficult to process existing and new collected material. Prototypes have shown the technical capabilities of visual database systems meet perceived needs in the marine sciences. A window of opportunity currently exists to use visual database systems to deal with the above problems. Decisions have to be made about the visual database system features which will result in the "best conomically possible format" allowing transfer of information between user sites, about the priorities of development, and the logistics of continued maintenance. Input from potential users of such systems will allow development of a comprehensive resource and workstation delivery environment to be guided by immediate and future application criteria.