Setting up a new dataset on the server

On the Unix box in the Image Server's data area, you should create a directory to hold all the data from the Macintosh. It should contain the Index, Scans, and Movies folders; all QuickTime move files must be transferred in MacBinary format, all others should be transferred as "raw data". To get the data out of the Mac, see Updating a server dataset.

Once the data is there, you may want to add a path to it from the meta-top-frame that's used to gain entry into the various datasets. (The other way to provide access would be to ship a startup script with the browser that would refer to the new dataset by name). The way this is currently handled is that the default Index folder for the image server contains a modified copy of the new dataset's top-level frame; the image file is unchanged, but the frame file contains a few embedded commands that cause the browser to look for subsequent files in the correct place. For example, the modified file for the Thorax dataset contains:

(set-path-prefix "Thorax:")
(set-master-frame "Thoracic Viscera")
(set-movie-map "Thorax:Daves movie.map")

Skills I use for this task:

- Unix file & directory management
(maybe requiring superuser privileges to override and manage file ownership)
- using specific transfer modes within Fetch or other ftp client
- modification of formatted files on Unix
(I use vi, and filter with tr to preserve the proper delimiter structure)