The Art of Massive Storage: A Web Image Archive

Museums can make their entire collections available to the world via the Internet. The Thinker ImageBase, the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums' online art image database, demonstrates issues involved in managing large storage systems and delivering their contents to users.

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