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From: 852028e@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Amari  M.  Elammari)
Subject: Multimedia database required
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.194815.1299@aucs.AcadiaU.ca>
Reply-To: 852028e@aucs.acadiau.ca (Amari  M.  Elammari)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 19:48:15 GMT
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A friend of mine in the Ancient History department has asked for my advice 
regarding a computer system for the Teaching Collection.

The curator of the Ancient History Teaching Collection at Macquarie wishes to
catalogue all the artefacts and papyri into an on-line research database. To
this end, he needs information about software and the hardware platforms under
them.

The software required basically falls into two categories:

a)	A relational (or object-oriented?) database with the facility to access
	and display images from a variety of sources e.g. scanned documents,
	captured video (still frame) etc. This is to provide researchers with
	a catalogue incorporating an image of the artefact referenced.
	
b)	Image capture and enhancement software. The researchers wish to be able
	to capture images from video as well as via scanning, and then
	experiment with enhancement techniques. The database mentioned above
	would reference both the original and enhanced images.
	
The software selected needs to be easy to use, since the average archaeologist
isn't usually too computer literate.

Can anyone out there in Netland offer advice/opinion? Maybe someone is already
doing this type of thing. Do standards exist? The History department would like
to make its resources available to whomever wishes access, so they'd like a
system which allows information transfer in some form over the net.

If you can help, please email direct to me.

Thanks in advance,
Amari

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Amari Elammari
Acadia University P.O.BOX 1236 Wolfville, N.S. Canada BOP 1X0
Internet: 852028e@AcadiaU.CA
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