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About The Album2 Electronic Photographic Archive

        In 1989 the University of Oslo Library launched a project called Conservation of and Access to the World Photographic Archive. The project has led to in-house development of a HyperCard/Macintosh based picture database (Media-Finder). From 8.000 old pictures, 3.500 unique photographs, drawings, and some watercolors were selected, identified, dated, classified, catalogued, described and digitized. (This English translation of the database covers 1.300 images.)
        The originals have been cleaned, reposed and transferred to an appropriately controlled environment in a strongroom. Damaged photographs were registered for future restoration. The collection as a whole is now far less prone to further deterioration.

        Enter the word or phrase you wish to search for in the appropriate search box. It is possible to truncate words at any position (e.g. «ship», as in «craftsmanship», «shipmate», «ship»).
        If one box is empty, will be selected all the records from that field. If you have an option which is not in the comboboxes options, select from its the option ***New event type*** or ***New object type*** and input the desired value in a popup window.
        When a search is executed, the retrieval system will show the hits in short format. This format may consist of a thumbnail and some text, thumbnails only or text only. The user may choose the format (thumbnail and some text by default). The user may also decide how many hits are to be shown at a time (10 by default). This choice decides how many hits will be shown in short format for each request to the database. The choices should reflect the size of your screen, and the speed of transfer. From the short format, the user can go on to full format.

Event Type
        The topics have been chosen to provide an unlimited key to the classification of the event types of the collection. Some cover only a few images, while others may relate to several hundred. If you wish to input a particular searching item you can select the option <<***New event type***>> and to input the desired option in the popup window.

Event Name
        This field contains the name of the event. Examples:

•    My 40th anniversary,
•    2000 graduation anniversary
•    Dammen family meeting

•    It was a sunny day,

• Day: 05 Month: 08 Year: 1938

•    not sure if this is the real date,
•    indeterminate date

Object Name
        This field contains the name of the object. Example:

• Dammen

•    Billedsamlingen
•    Olaf Helsets vei

Object External ID
        This field contains a reference to external id of the object. Examples:

•    KX-1245

First Name
        This field contains the your first name. Examples:    Erik Aas Nygard,

Family Name
        This field contains your family name. Examples:    Lars,

Social Security
        This field contains your social security number. Example:   1701028130912

Actual Address
        This field contains dates about your actual address. Example:
          Billedsamlingen, Olaf Helsets vei nr. 6, N-0619 Oslo

Password
        You will use the password (together with your ID) to access Album2 each time. Capitalization matters for your password.

Language
        This field contains initial of name of your language. Example:   En

Comment
        This field contains some comments about yourself. Examples:
           This is my family album and I want to dedicate to my sun, Abel.

Upload manager
        At this location, you can input information about event related with present picture.

Event Type
        The topics have been chosen to provide an unlimited key to the classification of the event types of the collection. If you wish to input a particular item you can select the option <<***New event type***>> and to input the desired option in the popup window.

Event Name
        This field contains the name of the event. Examples:

•    My 40th anniversary,
•    2000 graduation anniversary
•    Dammen family meeting

•    It was a sunny day,
•    My happiness day of my life
•    the school has finished

•    Day: 05 Month: 08 Year: 1938
•    Day:    Month:    Year: 1999

•    not sure if this is the real date,

• If you do not know the locations or names then click on the "Browse" button, which will allow you to navigate easily to the files and select them from there.
• A popup will appear and you can choose from your PC the file you wish to upload. Then, in that popup window click the "Open" button. Using this method you can upload only one file at a time.
• When you have selected the file that you want to upload press the "Upload!" button.

What is bandwidth you ask?
        The term bandwidth refers to how much data can be sent during a specific amount of time. It is an issue on the Internet because web pages, and the contents that fill web pages, are considered to be data. How quickly that data can be found on the machine that holds it and then sent over the wires to your computer is important. No one wants to sit at a computer for an hour waiting for the information they were seeking to appear. This problem is an issue of bandwidth. There are few steps an Internet host can take to make a specific web site experience a better one. One of the steps that FreeServers does take is to speed up the overall access of all visitors to your web site by controlling the size of files. This way no one is impacted by extra long waits while a data download is taking up the available bandwidth.

        At this location, you can input information each person or object from the present picture.

Object selection
        The object selection is making very easy. Just follow these siple steps.

1.  Make an drag and drop with the mouse selecting the area which you consider that represent your desired object.
2.  After you release the mouse, a popup menu will be displayed where you can choise to «add» a new object or to see a list with already inputed objects.
3.  If your option is to add an abject, the pupup menu will display a submenu where you can choise the type of the object (e.g. person, car, house, dog)
4.  If you want to add a new object type choise from object types submenu the last option «Add++». Imediadely will be displayed a popup window where you can input your new option.
5.  After you choised the object, a new submenu of the that will be displayed where you are invited to choise the relation type. (e.g. My Father, My Mother, car of my sister)
6.  If you want to add a new relation type choise from relation types submenu the last option «Add+». Imediately will be displayed a popup window where you can input your new option.
7.  Finaly, a popup window will be displayed where you can input the latest information about that object like object name, address, sex and external ID. Animation help.
8.  To delete an object from your picture is enought to make a mouse click on the area where is the object and from the displayed popup window to push the OK button.
9. To see the information about an object from your picture is enought to make a mouse click on the area where is the object, to read the wished information from the displayed popup window and to push the Cancel button.
10. To save the objects in data base you must to push the button Save.

Member Login

Album2 ID
        In this field you have to input your member ID. Examples:

•    15145,
•    625

•    puffy,
•    dami222

Album2 picture archive