Design of U-Doc: a research vehicle for hyper document retrieval on the Internet

In this article we present the UDOC architecture, which describes a thematic mirror based on the filtering of composite documents on the Internet or on others large networks. The main innovations of the paper concern the integration of filtering methods for images, sounds and videos, the research by concepts independent of the media, the concept of thematic mirror and the placement in tertiary memory. The disposition of new technical means for multimedia document indexation will allow a more massive utilization of these documents, which is currently limited on large networks. Our approach will be validated by a true magnitude experimentation. Prototyping is currently under way.