Message-Id: <mailto:199407211939.OAA02014@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 12:11:17 -0800 From: Haskia Hasson <mailto:haskia@NETCOM.COM> Subject: Image Vision To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
ARTchive is a relational image database program that I developed to support my image collection of ancient Burmese artifacts. My database is quite small by most readers standards (3,000+ images, movies and maps) but sufficiently large to require some system for image retrieval based on keywords. The method used in ARTchive is to search on the keyword field (or any of the other curatorial fields) to display a text captioned group of 15 images. Browsing the grouped images, an image of interest is selected by a pointing device (mouse). The full data set and images for the particular image is then displayed.I am very interested in learning what other schemes for image retrieval are being used in other projects.
Another important issue for image collections is the storage of the graphic image files. Rather than importing the graphic file into the database file, ARTchive uses just the pointer to the file's location. This scheme allows the graphic and multimedia files to be stored on any file storage device accessible to one's computer including PhotoCD and is ideal for a networked environment.
ARTchive currently runs only on a Macintosh computer with a Windows version due for release in 2 months. Shortly I will make a demo version available via anonymous ftp. Please email me directly should you want more info.
Haskia
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