Linking Text and Image Databases in GENREG: A Multi-media Museum Management at the National Museum of Denmark

The paper describes the various problems we encountered, and the solutions we found, when linking text and images from the old GENREG system in use at the Prehistoric Department to become a multimedia database management system. A frequently occurring problem is that manual documentation systems have a very different approach to *unique identification, of artefactslobjects than the approach taken by an electronic system. It became necessary not only to reconcile manual versus electronic documentation methods, but also to consider a way of classifying images according to their suitability for different uses as well as theactual use of the image in publication, scholarly documentation and research.