Real-Time digital libraries based on widely distributed, high performance management of large data objects

We describe a distributed, wide area network basedapproach to collecting, cataloguing, storing, and providing Webaccess for large-data-objects that originate as high-speed datastreams. Such data streams result from the operation of manytypes of on-line instruments and imaging systems, and are astaple of modern intelligence, scientific, and health careenvironments. The approach provides for real-time conversionof the data streams and large datasets to objects that aremanageable,...