Dear Colleagues,
I have a question for this esteemed group. As an art historian/medievalist and visual resource librarian, I am very interested in how institutions are addressing and including metadata for images in rare books and manuscripts which are being digitized. With the continual growth of digital projects it an important area. It is fantastic to have these wonderful collections digitized but a real frustration when image data cannot be located. I am wondering how this group is addressing this issue in their institutions? If you are addressing it, what schema for the image metadata you are using? Ideally, we would all want to be heading toward consistency and inter-collaborative schema for the sustainability of these projects in the future.
If you have some time, I would be interested in hearing about this area and what some of the current challenges are. Thank you. Harriet.
------------------------------------ Harriet Sonne de Torrens, MA, MISt., Ph.D., L.M.S. Librarian, Visual Resource Library https://utoronto.academia.edu/HarrietSonnedeTorrens Room 3021, CCT Building University of Toronto Mississauga 3359 Mississauga Road North Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Email: harriet.sonne@utoronto.ca Office: 905-569-4610
-----Original Message----- From: dm-l [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Dan Mosser Sent: September 13, 2014 2:56 AM To: Digital Medievalist Subject: [dm-l] Filemaker Pro/MySQL/ODBC issue
HI,
I am currently migrating projects to a new server and have encountered difficulties with the Thomas L. Gravell Watermarks Archive database. As is summarized below, we have moved everything, confirmed that we can update a MySQL database on the new server using FMP and the ODBC driver, but the Gravell database itself is not communicating, despite updating scripts, etc. Has anyone on the list had recent experience with these issues? One problem is that it has been awhile since we have had to deal with a migration and there are some rusty chops! Thanks in advance for any insights. Here's the summary from my tech person:
- Moved the MySQL database to the new server. Verified that the database user has all privileges to manage the database.
- Verified that Port 3306 is open so the database can be managed remotely.
- Installed the Actual Technologies ODBC Driver, created a new DSN for the MySQL database, and verified that we can connect to the MySQL database using ODBC.
- Updated the FileMaker Pro scripts to use the new DSN we created.
I can confirm that the MySQL database can be modified in FileMaker Pro via ODBC (I created a new FileMaker Pro database to test this), but something in the scripts in the existing FileMaker Pro database is preventing the ODBC connection from working. _____________________________ Dan Mosser dmosser@vt.edu _____________________________ Digital index of Middle English Verse (www.dimev.net) Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive (www.gravell.org) A Digital Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales (http://www.mossercatalogue.net) CV (http://mosser.vtcath.org)
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