A Supplier Sampler

This roster of archive suppliers and their systems includes some major companies active in the publishing market.

Text Archives

Baseview Library System, Baseview Products Inc., 333 Jackson Plaza, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48103-1922. E-mail, d4983@applelink.apple.com; web, http://www.baseview.com/; phone, (313) 662-5800; fax, (313) 662-5204. Product: Macintosh-based system that works in the Baseview editorial environment. Stories are extracted from the QuarkXPress pages via an XTension and then indexed with the Sonar Professional search engine. File formats: QuarkXPress.
EyeQ Publisher, DataTimes, 14000 Quail Springs Parkway, Suite 450, Oklahoma City, Okla. 73134-2613, (405) 749-6324; fax, (405) 755-8028. Product: For Microsoft Windows clients, EyeQ provides full-text searching with the Personal Library System search engine. Uses Novell Netware, Sun SPARC or Digital Equipment Corp. VAX as file servers. File formats: ASCII.
LASR, System Integrators Inc., Box 13626, Sacramento, Calif. 95853-4626, (916) 929-9481; fax, (916) 920-5691. Product: Based on SII's Synthesis 66 editorial front-end, LASR allows reporters working at Coyote terminals to call up archived stories exactly like other Coyote functions. Files are stored in the Synthesis 66 Tandem database. File formats: SII text files.
Save, Vu/Text Library Services, 2005 Market St., Suite 1010, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103-7010, (215) 587-4404; fax, (215) 587-2148. Product: Save allows for Macintosh and Windows connections to the database, which can be hosted on a wide range of hardware, from an Intel 486 computer to Sun SPARC or Digital Equipment's Alpha or VAX. Links to Harris' Vantage image-archive product. File formats: ASCII.

Text and Image Archives

MediaSphere, Cascade Systems Inc., 1 Corporate Drive, Andover, Mass. 01810-2485. E-mail, malcolm@cascade.com; phone, (508) 794-8000; fax, (508) 794-0005. Product: Networked SPARC file server and personal computer or Macintosh clients using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Database-search engine is Muscat. Supports IPTC header. File formats: EPS, JPEG, TIFF, AP TIFF.
PaperDesk, Gannett Media Technologies International Inc., 151 W. Fourth St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-2744, (513) 665-3777; fax, (513) 241-7219. E-mail, btoner@gmti.gannett.com. Product: Macintosh-based client on UNIX server (being developed for Windows 3.1). It accepts text from QuarkXPress pages or from Atex systems. Photos can be imported from AP Leaf Picture Desk through Photoweb--an automation system--into a Macintosh Ethernet network. Use Frontier software for automatic scripting. System can also store raster-image processor images of XPress pages and relate them to story text. Database-search engine developed by Digital Collections of Hamburg, Germany. File formats: JPEG, QuarkXPress.
PhotoView, NewsView, Lexis-Nexis, Box 933, Dayton, Ohio 45401-0933, (800) 227-9597, ext. 1819; fax, (513) 865-1948. Product: Windows-based system, also has Macintosh client. Does text and images; no full-page display. Supports IPTC data. Database-search engine is Folio Views. File formats: TIFF, JPEG, IMJPEG, AP TIFF, PhotoCD.
SD Arch, Auto-Grafica Corp., 58A Hobart St., Hackensack, N.J. E-mail, v0761@applelink.apple.com; phone, (201) 343-8585; fax, (201) 343-0711. Product: SD Page Box and SD Browser are IBM PC or Windows 3.1 compatible.Storage capacity is 50,000 images, unlimited with removable optical media. File formats: TIFF, JPEG, Targa.
Stauffer Gold Library and Photo Manager, Stauffer Media Systems, Box 1330, Joplin, Mo. 64802-1330, (417) 782-0280; fax, (417) 782-1282. Product: Archiving for text and photos with DOS or Macintosh clients. Writes to optical-disk drive; no full-page display. Database-search engine is Baseview. File formats: TIFF, JPEG.

Image Archives

AP Preserver, The Associated Press, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10020-1666, (212) 621-1720; fax, (212) 621-1723. Seamless interface to Leaf Picture Desk. Can be used across a Macintosh Ethernet. Includes data record with IPTC compatibility. New database-search engine is Personal Library System. Currently selling Level 3; Level 3.5 will include NewsLinks for multimedia over the World Wide Web. Level 4 will drop support for the AP Leaf Picture Desk (first quarter, 1996). File formats: EPS, JPEG, TIFF, AP TIFF, PDF, Illustrator; Freehand.
Merlin, T/One Inc., 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, Mass. 02169-7454. E-mail, pbl@crl.com; phone, (617) 328-6645; fax, (617) 328-9845. Product: Macintosh or Windows clients; Windows NT Advanced file server; interfaces to AP Leaf Picture Desk. Supports IPTC data record. CD-ROM jukebox for high-resolution storage. Has an assignment-tracking function with a Trax database. Database-search engine is FoxPro. File formats: EPS, JPEG, TIFF, AP TIFF.
PressLink Explorer Archive, Vu/Text Library Services, 2005 Market St., Suite 1010, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103-7010, (215) 587-4404; fax, (215) 587-2148. Product: Macintosh-based image browser allows viewing of thumbnail images in folders and searching of AppleSearch database; drag-and-drop to various applications. Database-search engine is PLS. File formats: EPS, JPEG, TIFF, AP TIFF.

Potential Alternatives

(in various stages of installation or development)

Digital Link Gateway, Applied Graphics Technologies, Digital Imaging Systems Division, 1580 Emerson St., Rochester, N.Y. 14606-3118, (716) 277-1760; fax, (716) 458-0770. Product: Windows-based seamless interface to Kodak PhotoCD scans. Captured image is written to CDs for permanent storage. Supports IPTC record data. Database-search engine is SQL Server. File formats: TIFF, PhotoCD, AP TIFF, Reuters JPEG.
ImageSpeed, Digital Technology International, 500 W. 1200 South, Orem, Utah 84058-6799. E-mail, d1067@applelink.apple.com; phone, (801) 226-2984; fax, (801) 226-8438. Product: Macintosh-based client with UNIX server handling photos, graphics, display ads and editorial ASCII text. Developing page-image display. Supports IPTC data record. Database-search engine is Sybase SQL or Conquest. File formats: EPSF; TIFF, JPEG, PICT.
Javelin, Digital Technology International. Product: Macintosh- and Windows-based clients with UNIX server handling virtually any file type, including Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand and QuarkXPress. Database-search engine is Sybase SQL or Conquest. File formats: Various.
Media Vault, EDS, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 41st floor, New York, N.Y. 10020-1104, (212) 403-6029; fax, (212) 403-6019. E-mail, webit@eds.com; info@eds.com; web, http://www.eds.com. Product: Windows 95 clients (Macintosh under development), running a search engine by Conquest; also a search capability that runs on the World Wide Web (Netscape). Object-oriented (rather than relational) database that runs on Silicon Graphics workstations. File formats: text, graphics, photos, video.
Mediaway, Imaging Database Applications, 10019 Howell Drive, Upper Marlboro, Md. 20772-9477, (301) 627-5212; fax, (301) 627-8394. E-mail, idacorp94@aol.com. Product: Robust multimedia client-server. Supports Macintosh, UNIX, DOS, Windows NT. Database-search engine is Media. File formats: TIFF, PICT, JPEG, PhotoCD, EPS.
ThumbsUp, Imaging Database Applications. Product: Medium-sized Macintosh-based client-server system. Windows 3.1 is coming. Catalogs and indexes still-photography, video and graphic-image files. Database-search engine is 4D. File formats: PICT, JPEG, EPS.
Photofile, SRA International Inc., 2000 15th St. N., Arlington, Va. 22201, (703) 558-2162; fax, (703) 558-4723. Product: Macintosh system (Windows 95 and PowerMac will be available later this year) with graphics capability. Single to 30 simultaneous users. Database engine doesn't matter, can be Sybase. Natural language searching. Handles more than 1 million images. File formats: TIFF, JPEG, PhotoCD, PICT, CMYK.
P.Ink Media System, Scitex America Corp., 8 Oak Park Drive, Bedford, Mass. 01730-1473, (617) 275-5150; fax, (617) 276-5725. Web, http://www.scitex.com. Product: Macintosh-based system with text, image and graphics capability. Natural language searching. Uses P.Ink's SQL database. File formats: Quark XPress.
Vantage, Harris Publishing Systems Corp., Box 8700, Melbourne, Fla. 32902-8700, (407) 242-4220; fax, (407) 242-5151. Product: Macintosh, Windows and Sun clients. SPARC file server. Supports IPTC data record. File formats: TIFF, JPEG, EPS.

Smaller Image Archiving Systems

C-Quest, Image Concepts Technologies Inc., 33 Boston Post Road W., Marlboro, Mass. 01752-1867, (508) 481-6882; fax, (508) 481-4406. Product: Macintosh and Windows client/server custom system. Synonym-thesaurus archive. No limit on catalog size. Automatic update. Single user, $5,000.
Fetch, Adobe Systems Inc., Box 7900, Mountain View, Calif. 94039-7900, (415) 962-2616; fax, (415) 962-2659. Product: Macintosh platform, Maximum images per catalog is 250,000. Multimedia files. Automatic update. $295 for multiusers.
Image Central, Advanced Imaging Concepts Inc., 301 N. Harrison St., Suite 266, Princeton N.J. 08540-3512, (908) 274-1877; fax, (908) 274-1974. Product: Windows platform. No limit on catalog size. Automatic update. Starter unit, $1,400.
Kodak Shoebox, Eastman Kodak Co., 343 State St., Rochester, N.Y. 14650-0001, (800) 235-6325. Web, http://www.kodak.com.Product: Macintosh and Windows. Maximum images per catalog is 30,000. Manual update. Single user: $139.
Kudo Image Browser, Imspace Systems Corp., 2665 Ariane Drive, Suite 207, San Diego, Calif. 92117-3422, (619) 272-2600; fax, (619) 272-4292. Product: Macintosh and Windows. 64,000 image limit. Multiuser with automatic update. $145-$200.
Multi-Ad Search, Multi-Ad Services Inc., 1720 W. Detweiller Drive, Peoria, Ill. 61615-1695, (309) 692-1530; fax, (309) 692-5444. Product: Macintosh platform. Maximum catalog is 160,000. Multiuser with automatic update, $249.

For a more complete list of small systems see: "The Cure for Image Disorder," by Stephen Muller, in Publish magazine, March 1995; see also "Finding the Perfect Imaging Solution" by Lee Mantelman, Imaging magazine, April 1995.)

--by David M. Cole and M.J. Crowley, library manager, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. E-mail: mooseclass.org.

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