This title includes a camera specific 80-minute DVD, created by photographers for photographers, as well as a book packed with picture-taking tips and useful for those who want to get the most from their camera.

Magic Lantern Guides Multimedia Workshops The world’s best photographic package! Magic Lantern Guides and DVDs have always provided the very best, most in-depth coverage of a camera’s ins-and-outs. Now, there’s even more "magic” on the market for photographers: the MAGIC LANTERN MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP. It’s a complete class in digital photography with a D-SLR camera--one that enables you to learn the essentials at your own pace, in the comfort in your own home. The attractive package includes: - Specific 80-minute DVD: An authoritative DVD guide made just for your model. Created by photographers for photographers, it covers specific camera features and functions. The format allows you to navigate easily between different topics and review chapters any time. - Taking Great Digital Photos: This full-color, 64-page book gets newcomers to the digital world started right. Packed with picture-taking tips and information on digital file formats, it explains how f/stops and shutter speeds work together to create an exposure, which focal lengths are best for various subjects, and how to get accurate color with white balance. - Great Photos with Your Digital SLR 60-minute DVD: This live-action tutorial demystifies digital shooting, and shows how to compose photos; choose the best picture-quality settings; improve results with the built-in flash; and interpret your histogram. Plus, see when to trust your camera’s automatic settings...or change them yourself. - Quick Reference Wallet Card: This laminated take-along is an ideal in-the-field key to camera and menu operations. There’s nothing else like this on the market!

Magic Lantern Guides Multimedia Workshops The world’s best photographic package! Magic Lantern Guides and DVDs have always provided the very best, most in-depth coverage of a camera’s ins-and-outs. Now, there’s even more "magic” on the market for photographers: the MAGIC LANTERN MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP. It’s a complete class in digital photography with a D-SLR camera--one that enables you to learn the essentials at your own pace, in the comfort in your own home. The attractive package includes: - Specific 80-minute DVD: An authoritative DVD guide made just for your model. Created by photographers for photographers, it covers specific camera features and functions. The format allows you to navigate easily between different topics and review chapters any time. - Taking Great Digital Photos: This full-color, 64-page book gets newcomers to the digital world started right. Packed with picture-taking tips and information on digital file formats, it explains how f/stops and shutter speeds work together to create an exposure, which focal lengths are best for various subjects, and how to get accurate color with white balance. - Great Photos with Your Digital SLR 60-minute DVD: This live-action tutorial demystifies digital shooting, and shows how to compose photos; choose the best picture-quality settings; improve results with the built-in flash; and interpret your histogram. Plus, see when to trust your camera’s automatic settings...or change them yourself. - Quick Reference Wallet Card: This laminated take-along is an ideal in-the-field key to camera and menu operations. There’s nothing else like this on the market!

This volume comprises papers from the following three workshops that were part of the complete program for the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) held in Prague, Czech Republic, in March 2002: XML-Based Data Management (XMLDM) Second International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering (MDDE) Young Researchers Workshop (YRWS) Together, the three workshops featured 48 high-quality papers selected from approximately 130 submissions. It was, therefore, difficult to decide on the papers that were to be accepted for presentation. We believe that the accepted papers substantially contribute to their particular fields of research. The workshops were an excellent basis for intense and highly fruitful discussions. The quality and quantity of papers show that the areas of interest for the workshops are highly active. A large number of excellent researchers are working in relevant fields producing research output that is not only of interest to other researchers but also for industry. The organizers and participants of the workshops were highly satisfied with the output. The high quality of the presenters and workshop participants contributed to the success of each workshop. The amazing environment of Prague and the location of the EDBT conference also contributed to the overall success. Last, but not least, our sincere thanks to the conference organizers – the organizing team was always willing to help and if there were things that did not work, assistance was quickly available.

Based on work produced over the past quarter-century at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, this stunning retrospective highlights the work of Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken, Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein, Chris Burden, Faith Ringgold, Yinka Shonibare, Robert Venturi, and other outstanding artists. (Fine Arts)

1 WorkshopTheme Digital multimedia di?ers from previous forms of combined media in that the bits that represent text, images, animations, and audio, video and other signals can be treated as data by computer programs. One facet of this diverse data in termsofunderlyingmodelsandformatsisthatitissynchronizedandintegrated, hence it can be treated as integral data records. Such records can be found in a number of areas of human endeavour. Modern medicine generates huge amounts of such digital data. Another - ample is architectural design and the related architecture, engineering and c- struction (AEC) industry. Virtual communities (in the broad sense of this word, which includes any communities mediated by digital technologies) are another example where generated data constitutes an integral data record. Such data may include data about member pro?les, the content generated by the virtual community, and communication data in di?erent formats, including e-mail, chat records, SMS messages, videoconferencing records. Not all multimedia data is so diverse. An example of less diverse data, but data that is larger in terms of the collected amount, is that generated by video surveillance systems, where each integral data record roughly consists of a set of time-stamped images – the video frames. In any case, the collection of such in- gral data records constitutes a multimedia data set. The challenge of extracting meaningful patterns from such data sets has led to the research and devel- ment in the area of multimedia data mining.