Proposal of tradition handicraft searching method using DCML

In recent years, various types of Web contents which consist of audio, video, graphics and text data are provided on WWW using high-speed networks. Since the volume of those data enormously increase, it is quite difficult to search and retrieve the desired data among them. More efficient and effective search and retrieval method are required to recover from this problem. In particular, the traditional industrial products such as Japanese crafts have various kinds of attributes and cannot be simply classified to take advantage of the conventional relational database system and retrieval system as opposed to the modern industrial products. In order to overcome those difficulties, we propose tradition industrial arts description language DCML with the use of half structure data model (Digital Crafting Mark up Language). Using DCML, database system for traditional industrial products can be easily defined and implemented to retrieve the desired objects by reflecting the user´s feeling.