Architecture

Our current brain map information system is yet another instantiation of our overall conceptual framework. As in the anatomy information system, the brain map information system includes a spatial database, a set of authoring programs, and an end-user program. An important addition in this case is the repository manager, which implements a Web-based multimedia database system that, when completed, will manage both brain-map authoring and brain-map retrieval via Web clients. Such an approach will be very useful for the anatomy information system as well.