Cross platform scripting language and database

[Net Llama!]

On 12/13/03 08:08, Joel Hammer wrote:

> In our dept of Pathology we are taking digital photos. I need to arrange
> an easy way to store and catalogue them. There needs to be an easy way
> for people to retrieve them based on accession numbers or subject
> matter.
> 
> I hope to use convert and identify from the imagemagick package to add
> comments to the image, so each image will contain all the information
> required to understand it. It should be easy to include the entire
> pathological diagnosis in each image, and later let another program
> extract this information for a simple data base.
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:23:01AM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>I don't fully understand the purpose of this application.  What is the 
>>database for?

Ahhh, ok, that makes a lot more sense.  Have you considered using 
something like gallery or jigl?  Neither requires a database, but allow 
you to organize groups of pictures.

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