Objective The objective of the project is to develop an integrated technology base enabling multimedia applications to be designed from existing business and administrative systems. In particular, the SYNDAMMA project will develop a migration path from relational database to Object Oriented systems that are specially suitable for multimedia objects..SYNDAMMA will provide both a toolset and a methodology. The methodology is aimed at supporting designers in incorporating multimedia dimensions in existing applications, including support to the Relational/Object mapping process.The toolset will support the developer in creating interactive multimedia applications either from scratch or from existing applications (based on relational database management systems and SQL embedded in COBOL or C source programs) migrating and extending them with multimedia capabilities.The SYNDAMMA methodology is an extension of what Waters names "Abstraction and Re-Implementation". It has been further decomposed and multimedia requirements capture and implementation has been added.The toolkit objectives are:- to provide a reverse engineering environment capable of producing and archiving design material from existing application sources. This environment will be capable of retrieving both the functional structure of the application and its data schemas.- to integrate the reverse engineering environment with a forward engineering environment to support the design and development of Object Oriented multimedia application by exploiting the knowledge base acquired during the reengineering phase.- to provide an environment capable of migrating old database data to the new designed Object Oriented database.In addition, the opportunity for a pilot application related to the economic database deployed by several public organisations across Europe will be studied and most likely implemented in a later phase of the project. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesrelational databases Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Datamat Ingegneria dei Sistemi SpA Address Via simone martini 126 00142 Roma Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all MARI (Northern Ireland) Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Bridgewood house newforge lane BT9 5NW Belfast See on map O2 Technology France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 7 rue du parc de clagny 78035 Versailles See on map REGIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTRE Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ard o donnell, 15 Letterkenny See on map TECNOPOLIS CSATA NOVUS ORTUS SCRL Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Strada provinciale per casamassima km 3 70010 Valenzano See on map University of Ulster United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Cromore road BT52 1SA Coleraine See on map
