Message-Id: <mailto:199510242106.QAA03302@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:08:16 -0700 From: Richard Rinehart <mailto:rinehart@UCLINK2.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Re: 4th Dimension To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
This may be old news to this group; but in the thread about using 4th dimension with a WWW interface, and as an image database system, you might look into the EmbArk system from DCI in Emeryville, CAlifornia, USA (sorry that's all the contact info I have on hand right now).The EmbArk system, as I understand it - we do not currently use it - is an image database system (especially for use as an art collection management system) which uses 4D as its base, and which I also hear will soon have a WWW interface. Dont' quote me on any of this, as I said, we do not use it, but it may be worth checking out, to see if their product can fit your needs, or just to show you what is possible.
Hope this info helps this line of inquiry (and no, I have no investment at all in DCI :)
Richard Rinehart | University Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive Systems Manager & Education | University of California at Berkeley Technology Specialist | 2625 Durant, Berkeley, CA 94720-2250 mailto:rinehart@uclink2.berkeley.edu | http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/
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>Hello,
>
>All this talk about 4th dimension is very interesting to me, as we are
>currently considering using it to develop an image database and managment
>program. In the end we would want to produce a compiled database that is
>merged with the 4th Dimension runtime module to create a stand alone
>('double-click') application. Is anyone else out there going this far? If
>so, how are you going about it? Have you simply purchased 4th Dimension
>and are planning on purchasing the compiler, or have you purchased the
>Software Developers Kit. Although the price difference seems to be quite
>substantial, the SDK looks like it contains some very helpful additions in
>the way of both development and documentation. Has anyone used this?
>
>
>Aaron Howell
>Visual Resource Center
>College of Architecture and Planning
>University of Colorado