Message-Id: <199605020259.VAA26100@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 12:54:47 +1000 From: Jennifer Brasher <mailto:J.Brasher@INS.GU.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: Filemaker/Embark -Reply To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Hi Kim,I have EmbARK sitting here but need more memory to make it operational. I wonder of you could link in extra tasks like this with Filemaker? They are supposedto be compatable?
Jennifer QCA
>I've spent hours talking to people at DCI about the structural of my
>dream photo database, as well as to people using EmbARK. It's a
>beautiful program. And very complex. But at this point I'm thinking
>about going back to the relational version of FileMaker, despite its
>lack of image virtuousity because customizing EmbARK and convincing
>DCI to add the files I need is quite daunting. I have the demo of
>EmbARK and haven't been able to customize to my satisfaction, YET. I
>may still be able to.
> The thing I really want out of EmbARK that I can't get (well, one
>of the things), is the following. We have a separate database (to be
>its own table in a relational database) with information about the
>people in our photos, including their occupations, organizations they
>were active in, and subject headings. This, in my mind's perfect eye,
>will allow us to search the database for photos, for example, of all
>of the women lawyers _being_ lawyers, or all of the women lawyers
>_regardless_ of what they're doing in the photo. I can't get EmbARK
>to do this.
> The other thing I want to be able to do is have a table of subject
>headings. That table would include 1. the subject heading, 2. where
>we got it from (LCSH or AAT), and 3. usage notes.
> And, while I'm at it, I want to be able to have people search the
>database by either using pick-lists of subject headings, or by typing
>in keywords.
> Maybe someone will write a beautiful add-on to FileMaker to make
>it make calls out to image files?
> Any one have any comments or insight on this one?
>Thanks,
>Kim Brookes
>Schlesinger Library
>Radcliffe College
mailto:>mailto:kbrookes@radcliffe.edu >
>>>> Jennifer Brasher <mailto:J.Brasher@INS.GU.EDU.AU> - 4/18/96 8:30 PM >>>
>........I've had a comment sent to me saying EmbARK has been found to
>be cumbersome and hard to use by people in California. However being
>an image database, it has the facility to store images at top
>resolution, which apparently, according to Trudy Levy, Image
>Integration, cannot happen in the new relational version of Filmaker
>Pro, which pops the image in the text file database and reduces the
>image file size as a result. My opionion is that if you're serious
>about an imaging project you have to store images at maximum
>resolution, and cannot consider compromise on this level.
>.....
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