Sounds cool Benjamin, How are you going to structure your directories for
these images?
Has anyone done anything with LDAP and image libraries???
Stew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Smedberg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 16 May 2000 23:22
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: image database
>
> > 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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