Re: Digital Image Archives

From: Tim Au Yeung (ytau@UCALGARY.CA)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 15:42:50 CDT

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Date:         Fri, 4 May 2001 14:42:50 -0600
From: Tim Au Yeung <mailto:ytau@UCALGARY.CA>
Subject:      Re: Digital Image Archives
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

    <pre> There's a few options:

    For image management with web access, there's a number of commercial solutions:

    Extensis Portfolio Canto Cumulus Luna Insight Hindsight Stockview Gallery Systems Embark

    I've personally used both Portfolio and Cumulus; I found Portfolio easier to learn but Cumulus more powerful.

    If you have a specialised need, you might want to look at a general purpose database that can handle images:

    Microsoft Access Claris Filemaker Pro IBM DB2 Content Manager
      and others...

    I listed the first two as both are good, capable databases for handling 5,000 - 20,000 images. Both allow you to put the images into the database or to access images outside of the database. Filemaker Pro is recommended if you have a Mac environment.

    Here's a link that might be helpful: http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/vrref.html

    In our case, I built our project using the Microsoft Data Engine with Access as the interface and used active server pages to provide the front end web integration.

    Tim
    --------------------------- Tim Au Yeung Manager, Digitization Initiatives (Technology) Alberta Heritage Digitization Project Information Resources, University of Calgary ytau (at) ucalgary.ca

    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Fontaine" <mailto:chris_fontaine@PCH.GC.CA> To: <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:32 PM Subject: Digital Image Archives

    >
    > Hello all,
    >
    > Here at Parks Canada we are beginning a digitization initiative. We
    > already have many of our images digitized, but we are searching for a
    > storage, management and display solution for these images.
    >
    > We currently have many sites with image collections. Each of these sites
    > wants to be able to maintain control of their collections on a local
    > database. However, we also wish to link all of these separate databases
    > together in one central repository to facilitate the sharing of
    information
    > throughout Parks, as well as making some of the images available to the
    > public via the internet.
    >
    > I am wondering if anyone has experience with a similar digitization
    > project, and if so, if you used a commercial off-the-shelf software
    > solution, or whether you had a system custom-built. If you did use a
    > commercial product, I would be grateful for any information regarding the
    > product,
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    > Chris Fontaine
    > Internet Technology Specialist
    > Parks Canada Agency
    > Tel: (819) 997-9889
    > Fax: (819) 997-0900
    > mailto:chris_fontaine@pch.gc.ca
    >

    </pre>

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