Re: paleonet Software

[John Van Couvering <vanc@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Raul -

It hardly needs saying that your needs are common to most paleontologists, 
especially those (i.e. micropaleo types) who deal in visualized records. 
There are more than a few solutions already in existence.  We faced such 
needs for a database of calcareous nannofossils, in developing Compustrat. 
While this program costs money to buy, that has inspired constant 
improvements in flexibility, ease of use and capability.  The Compustrat 
based program in use by the British Museum fossil data (published by 
Blackwell's as "PaleoBase") does not make much use of the thumbnail 
feature, nor is it the most recently improved version, but you can get an 
idea there.  If you'd like to see the full capability, drop us a line at 
<micro@amnh.org> to arrange for a demo.

Hope this commercial is not offensive. Gray area here.

John Van Couvering

>Sounds like ACDSee (http://www.acdsystems.com/English/index.htm) would be 
>a good choice, it's fast, easy to use, relatively cheap (50$) and you can 
>try it out before you buy it. But I don't know if it is possible to attach 
>descriptions to the pics.
>
>Cheers
>Ludvig
>
>At 03:05 PM 7/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>Dears paleoneters:
>>
>>I have a problem that perhaps many of you are facing too. I am
>>accumulating a large number of scanned and digital pictures and need to
>>save them in a way that facilitates further use. That means, save them
>>by categories, subcategories and descriptions (age, locality, date,
>>family and species names, etc.). Also I want to be able to see the
>>picture without poping it out on the screen in full size. Does any of
>>you any software useful for that?
>>
>>--
>>Raul Esperante, PhD
>>Geoscience Research Institute
>>11060 Campus St
>>Loma Linda, California 92350
>>USA
>>Tel (909) 558 4548
>>FAX (909) 558 4314
>>email: resperante@univ.llu.edu
>
>Dr. Ludvig Löwemark
>Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
>P.O. Box 1-55, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan R.O.C.
>Tel. +886-(0)2-2783 9910 ext. 606
>Fax. +886-(0)2-2783 9871
>
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