Multimedia Digital Library: Performance and Scalability Issues

Abstract – Digital Libraries have become the source of information sharing across the globe for education, research and knowledge. The full potential of the Digital Libraries is realized when any citizen can have access to all human knowledge from any location. In today’s scenario the multimedia has become an effective information sharing resource, people of all ages can understand more clearly by seeing / hearing rather than reading. Based on the tremendous growth in the various technologies, the establishment of Multimedia Digital Libraries is not an impossible task. But there are some critical challenges like performance and scalability, that prevail in the Multimedia Digital Library. In this paper, we are critical challenges and are providing a solution framework through an architectural representation