Database research at Bilkent University

Abstract

The research activities of the Database Research Group of Bilkent University are discussed. The research is mainly focused on the topics of multimedia databases, Web databases, and mobile computing. The Ottoman Archive Content-Based Retrieval system is a Web-based program that provides electronic access to digitally stored Ottoman document images. The issues involved in adding a native score management system to object-relational databases, to be used in querying web metadata are also discussed.