Message-Id: <mailto:199601241807.MAA18802@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:49:10 CST From: "Bruemmer, Bruce" <mailto:bruce@FS1.ITDEAN.UMN.EDU> Subject: Re: Image management software To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Re: Gimbel Library's Digital Imaging ProjectI am engaged in a similar project. A vendor gave me a demonstration of Kudo and I was disappointed with the text database portion of it. It allowed no provision for placing data in different fields, so in essence it did a word search across the text data. This creates two problems: a large database would have a slow retrieval time, and boolean searches were impossible.
I have heard statements about Cirrus coming out on a windows platform (MAC only right now -- or should I say "SUN platform?" (see today's Wall Street Journal)). Cirrus has the same sort of licensing deal as Kudo. I have not looked at its database feature. Problem is, Cirrus for Windows is but a software promise, and vaporware is not something on which you want to place your hopes.
The way the market is shaping and the use of our archives, I am almost to the point of scrapping the idea of CD-ROMs as a distribution vehicle. More and more photo researchers that I talk to have Web capabilities, and many photos requests have been prompted by our modest Web photo gallery. On the down side, I have discovered low resolution images picked off our Web and used in publication. They were properly cited, but the quality in the publication was so bad that I almost wish they had gone unattributed. Plus the Web is darn slow for pictures, even for those of us who have direct network connections. Bruce H. Bruemmer Archivist Charles Babbage Institute 103 Walter Library University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455
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