Hello Jim, I have been cataloguing photographic images via databases for the past 17 years. Initially this entailed developing a cataloguing methodology as well as a database. The current cross-platform version of each is freely available as a PDF and accompanying FileMaker runtime solution file at the address below. One word of caution though is to "link" any images rather than the default "embedding" as the latter blows out the size of the database very quickly resulting in slow performance and potential crashing. Should you have any further questions please feel free to ask. cheers, Douglas
Douglas Elford Imaging & New Media Western Australian Museum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of WAMfoto: A Procedure Manual and Database for Cataloguing Photographs, since 1985 http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/photography/wamfoto.htm Subject: Cataloguing issues Here in Murdoch we are getting students to label high-quality colour images of museum specimens as an exercise in learning Anatomy. Ultimately when corrected we want to make these available for all to study, probably via a CD that the students can purchase rather than via the WWW (too easy to steal!). The issue is how to catalogue them and have a searchable data base. My immediate response was FileMaker Pro (we have FMP 4.0) , but I wonder if anyone has a better solution? -- Dr J.M. Cummins
