The World-Wide Web provides a wonderful opportunity to make old databases
widely available at low cost. While some sacrifices of functionality
are inevitable, the potential to reach a world-wide audience through
a standard interface far outweigh the drawbacks. This talk discusses
how to make old data- and imagebases available over the Web. Specific
topics addressed include
overcoming limitations of the Web for access to complex and large
databases.
speeding response time through Javascript and database pre-processing.
planning the user interface.
imaging considerations.
rapid development and deployment techniques.
Examples will be taken from the authors' work on Janus (the Web interface
to the Census of Antique Art & Architecture Known to the Renaissance)
and from other work in progress.
