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| | Spring 2003 Connect: "Using Cumulus..." |
 | | Cumulus is able to collect much of the information associated with a digital multimedia object automatically, making it much easier to use than traditional, general-purpose databases. |
 | | Cumulus ships with a default set of media-related database fields programmed into it, a catalog that contains a subset of those fields, and a default record display which shows a subset of the cataloged fields, providing the userwith information about a specific image, movie, or other multimedia object. |
 | | For example, an art historian might want to digitize his slide collection, and for each slide include the artist's name, the title of the work, the date of the work, keywords describing what is being depicted, and the art movement or period with which the artist is associated. |
| www.nyu.edu /its/pubs/connect/spring03/galanter_databases.html (2174 words) |
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