Message-Id: <mailto:199510240700.CAA19721@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 16:20:18 +1000 From: Jennifer Brasher <mailto:J.Brasher@INS.GU.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: Software program DATAEASE To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I think this must be for someone else onthe list and it has come to my address by mistake. Possibly in reply to the query about Filemaker.Regards Jennifer QCA
>I have been using DATAEASE for six years. DATAEASE is really easy to set up
>and I tailored my cataloging sceen to look like a MARC record (without the
>numbers). It takes some work to set it up but once set up it is easy to
>handle. Making reports is also easy and I do labels by using an address
>label format. One difficulty is having to go through several menus in order
>to initiate some functions. There is also trouble when trying to erase a
>record. The program saves the record and the only way to erase it is to
>reorganize the entire file. I did not have enough bytes on my computer to
>accomplish the task so I got stuck. What a mess. I have not been too
>pleased with the help from the Dataease company until I found a local firm
>that can give me advice when I get stuck. I also have approximately 57,000
>slides on the database and only have an IBM PS/2 computer for imputing. So
>far we do not have any digitizing project going so I do not know if DATAEASE
>records would easily transfer as a text base. The one digitizing project
>that is still being worked on, the professor decided to use NETSCAPE and
>Adobeshop to imput the records and digitized images. The professor has to
>re-enter the data from the slide for each image. Such a lot of duplication
>but he has a mind of his own!
> I can be reached either by E-mail or by phone if you want to talk more
>about DATAEASE. I also have an old edition of DATAEASE and the newer
>edition might have solved a couple of the problems I encounted.
>
>Lindy
>Telephone: (312)413-2464
>
>Lindy J. Narver
>Director, AA Slide Library
>University of Illinois, Chicago
>(312)413-2464
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