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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Wishlist for Exhibit Log
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:40:36 +0000
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At 12:38 AM 10/4/2005, Robin Lamacraft wrote:
>At 22:54 3/10/2005 +0000, Darrell A. Martin wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>> It does not make any sense to me to have a
>> "Master Image List" record that points to
>> more than one image file. Or are you saying
>> the program should allow for multiple
>> "versions" of the same image? I would need
>> more detail before I would agree, and I'm
>> inclined to say I wouldn't.
>
>
>Darrell,
>
>I have long advocated the need for TMG to hold links to multiple copies of the same image. Let me explain a bit further before you dismiss this out of hand. This problem is exacerbated by the way TMG maintains only one Primary status for a person image.
>
>Let me look at the way exhibits may be used in TMG and ask - does one image file (of the identical subject) serve all needs. It is my belief that this is not true. An image may be:
>A - the best that you have (as acquired, no cropping or other adjustments)
>B - a cropped image of printable resolution suitable for inclusion in a chart or FGS, etc
>C - a reduced resolution image for inclusion on a web page for fast downloading
>D - a cropped, adjusted image for inclusion in the final copy of a family history book
[snip]

Hi, Robin:

I understand where you are coming from. Your argument has merit; after all, an *Image* in the Platonic sense is unaltered by variations in the digital formats by which it is represented.... (I assume that is what you meant by "identical subject", otherwise I do *not* agree with you, at all).

If I had the slightest influence with Bob V., I would have to spend some time pondering this. I think I would focus on questions of how to create a "matrix" of Image Types and their potential uses. The trouble I see is the same as the problem of Memo subfields; there can never be enough.

Enough. To bed.

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/

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