The material generated by the research has been digitized and is now available online in the form of a multimedia database.

"This is probably the forerunner of a multimedia database," he explained.

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

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

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

This gives at least some indication how multimedia databases can be constructed.

The concept of a multimedia database could obviously revolutionise the character of online information products.

"We were also making multimedia databases of materials having to do with gross violations of international humanitarian law," he said.

Superbase was often referred to as the multimedia database in early years, when such features were uncommon.

It features a public reference library and Compass, a multimedia database of the museum's collections.