On Fri, 16 May 1997, Jennifer Jaskowiak wrote: > I am the curator and collections manager of a small collection (less than > 2000 objects), mostly 2-dimensional. Our current systems are Mac based; I > have an 8500 PowerMac. I would like my database to have flexible formats > and fields and, if it is not asking too much, I would like to have it > compatible with the Web and web search engines. > > Any suggestions? Feel free to reply to my private email or to the general > list, your choice. > Consider this another vote for Claris FileMaker Pro - the easiest database I have ever used, both Mac and Windows. I don't know how it hooks up to the Web, but I have used it for more than one exhibition to do every style of output, and the price is certainly competitive. If you can't afford a collections management package, this is the way I would go, and when you can afford to move up it should be possible to migrate your data.