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In the Spring of 1995, Thomas L.
Gravell and the University of Delaware Library agreed to
participate with Daniel Mosser and Ernest W. Sullivan, II to make The
Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Collection of photographic reproductions of
over 7,000 watermarks in paper made between 1400 and 1835 available as a
searchable online electronic database on the Internet. The first version
(1.0) of the Gravell Archive, using only HTML markup, was mounted on the
World Wide Web in 1996. Relatively quickly, we converted the database to
a FileMaker Pro database, served by FileMaker using web pages generated
by Claris Dynamic Markup Language (CDML). This version, 2.0, has been
plagued with access and reliability problems. In July 2007, we
reconfigured the database so that while data input still employs
FileMaker Pro, the database structure is now relational, and employs a
series of linked tables. Records from the FileMaker database are
uploaded via ODBC to a MySQL database on the CATH server, which
generates records on the fly using PHP commands. The current Mac
X-Server is located in a secure building, employs RAID backup
protection, and is connected by a 100 BaseT data port. We believe
version 3.0 will satisfy our needs and those of its users. Please
revisit us: http://www.gravell.org.
Please notify us of any issues/bugs you might detect in the content or
operation of the database.
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Dan Mosser <dmosser@vt.edu>
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