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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- EmbARK is very pretty, but for information value we are having great success with filemaker Pro 3.0. We have complete cataloguing records linked to an authority database, to a subject heading database, to a conservation record database, etc. adding thumbnail images in a year or so. In this way, we do very complete item level records, easily searched or sorted for reports. Why wait for EmbARK when fmp3.0 is quick to use and so flexible. Remember, this is all going to be different in a year or two. [all our finding aids will be sgml coded and on the web] Julie Mellby Assistant Curator The Houghton Library Harvard University On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Jennifer Brasher wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Maryly's comment is interesting: DEBATE: is the multi-layered record more > suited to images? After working with a flat file database, I suspect it > is. I have the EmbARK sitting there waiting for more memory before I can > start. How is the Imagequery project from University of California, Berkely > faring these days - it seemed to be a relational setup? As more and more > CD ROM searches seem to be structured this way, computer literate users are > going to start thinking more laterally and expect this. > > Just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons - I've read of new approaches to > cataloguing in general, for monographs, which steps beyond the MARC format, > again a one page format. Any commments? > > Jennifer QCA > > >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > >I have only had limited introduction to EmbARK but I found > >my experience similar to learning slidedb, our online > >cataloging program. I think relational database management > >tools that almost by necessity use multiple windows have > >a very steep learning curve. The eye and the brain has to learn > >the relationships between the windows AND the relationships > >between data. When information is entered in one window, it > >often has an effect on another window, or on the display of > >data in another window. Learning these relationships are not > >intuitive or easy at first. Daily or weekly you can > >feel your comprehension and memory retention expanding, and > >soon/eventually moving between the varius interconnected > >windows seems logical and appropriate. It could be that this > >steep learning curve, coupling visual and textual relationships > >is not a funciton of EmbARK but of multiple window rdbms > >(relational database management systems). > >Maryly Snow > >[log in to unmask] > >> > >> ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > >> Hi, > >> > >> In summary. > >> > >> I've had a comment sent to me saying EmbARK has been found to be cumbersome > >> and hard to use by people in California. However being an image database, > >> it has the facility to store images at top resolution, which apparently, > >> according to Trudy Levy, Image Integration, cannot happen in the new > >> relational version of Filmaker Pro, which pops the image in the text file > >> database and reduces the image file size as a result. My opionion is that > >> if you're serious about an imaging project you have to store images at > >> maximum resolution, and cannot consider compromise on this level. > >> > >> I have the EmbARK sitting waiting to go when we buy more memory in the form > >> of the new RAID technology, and also buy a Nikon SuperCoolScanner with > >> slide attachment. I have built a database on the earlier Filemaker version > >> and do find it very user friendly to a point, but totally frustrating in > >> its limitation of one function per file and think the new relational setup > >> must improve the flexibilty of this setup, but see the limited image file > >> size as a serious drawback. > >> > >> I've heard excellent reports about EmbARK, and I seem to have grasped the > >> basics of it but havn't had a chance to set it up yet. With Filemaker I had > >> a video tuition package and really EmbARK needs to have this service as > >> well. Manuals can be indiosyncratic and convoluted at times. > >> > >> I'd appreciate further information, discussion and comments on the above > >> comparison on the list. > >> > >> Thanks for your thoughts. > >> > >> Jennifer QCA > >> > >> > >> > >>************************************************************************** > >>**** > >> Jennifer Brasher EMAIL: [log in to unmask] > >> Art Librarian VOICE: +61 (07) 3875 3132 > >> FAX: +61 (07) 3875 3133 > >> SNAIL MAIL > >> Queensland College of Art Library > >> Griffith University > >> Clearview Terrace > >> Morningside Campus > >> PO Box 84 Morningside Brisbane Queensland 4170 Australia > >> > >>************************************************************************** > >>**** > >> > >> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one > >> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress > >> depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw > >> > >> > >>************************************************************************** > >>**** > >> > > ****************************************************************************** > Jennifer Brasher EMAIL: [log in to unmask] > Art Librarian VOICE: +61 (07) 3875 3132 > FAX: +61 (07) 3875 3133 > SNAIL MAIL > Queensland College of Art Library > Griffith University > Clearview Terrace > Morningside Campus > PO Box 84 Morningside Brisbane Queensland 4170 Australia > ****************************************************************************** > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress > depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw > > ****************************************************************************** >