> I want to setup a large commercial image database for a client.
> Like http://www.photodisc.com/
> I want to be able to easily add new images, be able to fully search
images,
I'm doing something similar, a "digital information museum/library" for the
university. It has extensive metadata information about the images (and
statistical datasets, and PDF files) in a database, but the actual data is
stored in flat files. Depending on the load you expect, you can dynamically
generate thumbnails using GIFGD when they are requested, or you can generate
them when the image is first saved into the system, and save them as flat
files as well. The rest is fairly simple coding.
Because I am going to have upwards of a million slides in my system, it is
tuned rather extensively in Oracle, but a smaller system could probably run
quite succesfully in Access.
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