----- Forwarded message from Dave Broer <[log in to unmask]> ----- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:35:08 -0400 From: Dave Broer <[log in to unmask]> Subject: online digital collections THANKS! To: [log in to unmask] Thanks for all the wonderful replies that I received about putting a digital collection online. While I have not found a full packaged solution that is within my budget, I have some ideas on how I will proceed. My thoughts are to combine a couple of different existing solutions. First, I like the zoomify program as it helps keep down the bandwidth and prevents leaching of the digital images that I will provide to anyone who asks anyway, I just want to know who has them if I am going to have a large online collection. Second, I have found a way to use existing photo gallery software with the zoomify program. So, I can use this as the gateway to browse and search through the collection and use zoomify to limit the bandwidth that is used to view the images. I can nest as many 'galleries' as I need to regionalize and localize the maps that I will be putting online. I put one of my map images online at : http://www.broermaps.org/zoomifytst/Template.htm so I could see how it works and how the maps would look. I think it works very well. If you want to see a test gallery of my maps (just the full size image as I haven't 'zoomified' these maps yet), you can see them here: http://www.broermaps.org/applications/Gallery/ What I like about this combination is that it accomplishes what I'm looking to do and utilizes open source/free solutions. Does anyone foresee any major problems outside of the time consuming task of putting them online? Thanks again for all your help! Dave Broer Broer Map Library [log in to unmask] ----- End forwarded message -----