Abstract
The goal of the Garlic project is to build a multimedia information system capable of integrating data that resides in different database systems as well as in a variety of non-database data servers. It had been shown that the Garlic system is capable of coordinating a broad range of object-oriented, relational and multimedia queries across several repositories with very different data models and levels of sophistication in every processing. Garlic supports a novel query/browser interface called PESTO. It was shown that the PESTO's seamless integration of browsing and querying over object-oriented data made its very natural interface for the Garlic system.