Message-Id: <mailto:199603010040.SAA06341@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 19:36:48 -0500 From: Bob Rosenberg <mailto:rarosenb@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Databases for multi-image documents To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
We have an item-level database for some 80,000 documents. We are going to link that database to images (8-bit grayscale, for the most part) of the documents. Many of the documents are multi-page; at present we have one record for each document. Since they are on microfilm, the database record need only take you to the first frame of the document. Once they are digitized, that will not be the case. There are added complexities in the form of notebooks with undated entries and dates out of order, documents with pieces in odd places, and more--in other words, we cannot simply assume that the next frame is the next image. We are exploring options for new fields in the database to contain information about previous/next image in the document, how many images there are, and so on. Has anyone had experience with this sort of digital archive or database?Looking to our next problem, has anyone created or used a program that can link the images to the database? It will have to display the image and the data record, and ideally it will allow us to capture the image filename with a keystroke for entry in the database.
Not much--just the moon.
Bob Rosenberg
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