Re: Digital imaging & collection management software]

From: Linda (Linbien@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 10:38:54 CDT

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    From: Linda <mailto:Linbien@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA>
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    <pre> Marlene, Adagilson BB Silva and others,
     I'm replying to the list because maybe others would be interested in Edibase:

    Edibase for DOS was the database used at Concordia during my tenure as Slide Librarian. Since the Y2K switch to Macintosh OS the database in the CUFFASL has been FMP. Janice Anderson (mailto:Janicea@vax2.concordia.ca) is the person to ask about that.

    For my part in my role in Charge of the Research Collections I mounted thousands of entries from Edibase online - you can view the results at http://collections.concordia.ca/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/sldb/edbnet.pl. (The images were scanned on a Mac and uploaded from CDs.) I am presently trying to get a handle on FMP, ACCESS and on the lastest version of Edibase for Windows. It is perhaps worth noting that Edibase was created and developed by librarians for libraries. The bilingual database is used extensively in Quebec libraries.

    An English summary about mailto:Edib@se.net from 1998 is on the CUFFASL Research Collections homepage. Click on "Documensa" at http://collections.concordia.ca/.

    See http://www.visardsolutions.com/Francais/produits.html for the most recent info - in French. Visard Solutions/Documensa does have documentation in English off line and their staff is fluent in English.

    Sorry I can't tell you if they speak Spanish at Visard/Documensa or can customize the bilingual French English database into Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew etc. It would be worth finding out.

     Contact them by phone in Montreal at 514-286-9494 or 514-286-9600.

    Good luck. LB

    >My request for imaging and collection management systems many months ago
    >only produced one reply. In the interim, I have been working on another
    >publication which is almost completed. So your question comes at a good
    >time now that I can devote more time to assembling information.
    >
    >Oracle, EmbARK, File Maker Pro, Content, and Portfolio are systems that
    >I have information on. If anyone is using other systems, please send me
    >the name, web site, or address. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
    >
    >Marlene Gordon
    >Senior Associate Curator
    >University of Michigan-Dearborn
    mailto:>mgordon@umich.edu

    Linda Bien, Adjunct Slide Librarian in Charge of Research Collections
     Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada mailto:Linbien@vax2.concordia.ca 514 848-4690

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