Re: CDDD

[P3D John W Roberts <roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:34:40 -0500
>From: "P3D  Adam L. Beckerman"  <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: CDDD

>My guess is that most people will opt for the latter anyway, and in their 
>spare time, view each site in order at a time, or do a search for 
>something specific (Dan, will people be able to do this?  Will there be 
>a brief description of the content of each page next to its link on the 
>main page so that the simple word find feature of the web browser will 
>allow people to selectively view that which interests them?  If not, will 
>searching be enabled, and if so, how?).

There are companies that sell very nice CD-ROM front-end software that acts
as the user interface for the CD-ROM, provides search functions, and so on.
I believe one common deal is that you send them umpteen thousand dollars,
and they send you the software plus an umlimited distribution license to
send it out on that particular CD-ROM. That sounds a little expensive for
this project. There might be some products or services advertised in
Imaging magazine.

I don't think the current web browsers do multilevel searches. That sounds
like the kind of thing "intelligent agents" do, but I don't know much about
them (pricing, availability, etc.).

I suspect that trying to come up with any search functions or other user
utilities that are not strictly off-the-shelf would be even more time consuming
than rearranging the directory structure of the images.

John R


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