Hi John,
I think you will find more and more tools will come out that support cross
platform apps. There are several reasons why there are not a huge number of
them to date:
- Market penetration: Although other smart phones (apart from the iPhone) have
significant market share people do not
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Robyn:
I haven't used Mimsy, so I couldn't say if it supports this, but what I've
done with a few different databases now is to create an Exhibition record
that links all of the items. But for individual, discrete groups, I've
always had to manually massage the labels, then save the label to the
We occasionally cluster a group of works together and do one label, ie. Top to
bottom is
It might be the easiest thing to do these labels manually and record the text
in your database.
Otherwise you may be working very hard to create something that may cause
problems later.
Frank
Robyn,
At the Musical Instrument Museum, we have had similar situations. In one
exhibit, we used components from both a male and female costume in order to
create the desired effect (this was a stilted Carnevale, and the female pants
were shorter, emphasizing the stilts). To manage these, we