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How Gallery Systems and 4D are helping bring
art to the world
News release: February 6, 2004
Published by 4D, Inc.
Numerous types of institutions and businesses
utilize image management applications. These
applications are essentially databases that
let users catalog and track images. But they
vary significantly according to the markets
they are designed for. Digital photographers,
for example, want a program geared to the particulars
of managing digital photos. Museums, on the
other hand, are interested in programs that
let them manage both digital images and the
physical objects they represent, such as paintings,
sculptures or historic photographs.
New York-based Gallery Systems provides image
management software and services to museums,
foundations, collectors, and visual resource
libraries throughout the world. Their program
EmbARK is utilized by many top museums, including
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Frick
Collection in New York.
While digital image management is a central
feature of the program, EmbARK’s comprehensive
data structure makes it ideal for cataloguing
detailed information about images or the object
collections they represent. Museums use EmbARK
to track each of the objects in their collection.
They can track such things as the title and
dimensions of each piece, while also managing
histories of locations, valuations, exhibitions,
and loans.
The newest addition to EmbARK is Web Kiosk,
an add-on module that makes data held in EmbARK
accessible via the Internet. Once data is catalogued
in EmbARK, it can be put online using Web Kiosk.
Visitors can peruse a virtual gallery by searching
on specific criteria or by browsing through
thematic portfolios and indexes. Many institutions
have implemented EmbARK Web Kiosk in order to
broaden access to their collections. The list
includes Memorial Art Gallery of the University
of Rochester and San Jose State University,
School of Art & Design.
And what is used to power EmbARK Web Kiosk?
A 4D Web engine, of course! But Gallery Systems
isn’t stopping here. Currently they are
exploring integration of 4D Business Kit as
a way to allow museums and other clients to
sell digital images managed through EmbARK online.
With this capability museums can even publish
a CD-Rom with EmbARK CD, authoring and selling
it right in their gift shop.
Another way that 4D is helping improve the way
critical information is managed in healthcare!
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