Volume 23    Number 4    December 1994

The articles highlighted as hypertext buttons are available on line. EDITOR'S NOTES AND ERRATUM ARTICLES: Are the Terms "Version" and "Variant" Orthogonal to One Another? Hartmut Wedekind Data Modeling in the Large Martin Bertram A New Join Algorithm Dong Keun Shin and Arnold Charles Meltzer SPECIAL SECTION: METADATA FOR DIGITAL MEDIA Introduction to the Special Issue Wolfgang Klas and Amit Sheth (Editors) Metadata for Multimedia Documents Klemens Bohm and Thomas C. Rakow Metadata in Video Databases Ramesh Jain and Arun Hampapur A Meta-database System for Semantic Image Search by a Mathematical Model of Meaning Yasushi Kiyoki, Takashi Kitagawa, and Takanari Hayama SEQUOIA 2000 Metadata Schema for Satellite Images Jean T. Anderson and Michael Stonebraker Using Metadata for the Intelligent Browsing of Structured Media Objects William I. Grosky, Farshad Fotouhi, Ishwar K. Sethi, and Bogdan Capatina Metadata for Integrating Speech Documents in a Text Retrieval System Ulrike Glavitsch, Peter Schauble, Martin Wechsler Meta-data for Mixed-media access Francine Chen, Marti Hearst, Julian Kupiec, Jan Pedersen, Lynn Wilcox DATABASE RESEARCH SURVEYS: Loading Databases Using Dataflow Parallelism Tom Barclay, Robert Barnes, Jim Gray, Prakash Sundaresan DATABASE STANDARDS ACTIVITIES: Recent Design Trade-offs in SQL3 Nelson Mattos and Linda G. DeMichiel TRADE PRESS NEWS Announcement and Preface Rafael Alonso UNIX RDBMS: The next generation Bill Rosenblatt DATABASE RESEARCH FUNDING: Announcements from NSF, NASA, and Elsewhere Xiaolei Qian ANNOUNCEMENTS and CALLS FOR PAPERS Detailed CFPs Arie Segev / segev@csr.lbl.gov Last update: June 26, 2000 Previous Issue: September 1994 Next Issue: March 1995 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.