Setting up a new dataset
Steps:
- Create a new folder for the dataset
- Put a copy of the FrameBuilder application into the folder
- Make three additional folders inside the new one:
"Index","Scans", and "Movies"
The above is all you really need. Normally, for a large dataset,
the images in the Scans folder and the associated frame files in
the Index folder would be separated into groups and put into
sub-folders to make it easier to find things. Also, you would probably
want to copy the HELP data folders from an existing dataset, since
the browser depends on these files for its online help. (There's a HELP
folder inside Index, and another inside Scans).
If the browser application on the author's machine isn't set up to
specifically look in the
new data folder, you should probably copy a browser startup script file
into this location (at the same level as FrameBuilder and the Index & Scans
folders). This allows the browser to locate the data files when you
double-click the startup icon to test the dataset. The script will
minimally consist of a command like (open-frame "top-level frame name").
Skills I use for this task:
- Mac file & directory management
- Understanding of what a "frame file" is