LBSC 708l Fall 1997 Term Project:
Picture Catalog for Biological Specimens
Team members: Jack Scott, Jennifer Ward, Cynthia Zujko-Miller

Project description:  We took an existing image database system and developed a graphical user interface that allows users to search the database and display the results in various ways.  Both the database and interface were developed in Java 1.1.  The team employed a rapid prototyping methodology and created three iterations of the interface over a six-week period.  The picture catalog is to be used by biologists attempting to identify specimens.  The database can be searched by characteristics of the specimen and the retrieved pictures can be compared to the specimen.  More detailed information on  useage scenarios is available.

Iteration 1: Iteration 2: Iteration 3:
Specification  Specification  Specification 
Source/Sink Diagram  Source/Sink Diagram  Source/Sink Diagram 
Object Class Model  Object Class Model  Object Class Model 
Picture Display Subject Area  Picture Display Subject Area  Picture Display Subject Area 
Utility Subject Area  Utility Subject Area 

The final version of Picture Catalog is available online.  To view it, use the appletviewer that comes with the JDK.  At a DOS promt type: appletviewer http://www.wam.umd.edu/~joscott/708l/pcat.htm

Picture Catalog is composed of over 100 Java classes.  You can view a list of many of the  classes that make up the interface. To view source code, click on a file with a .java extention.


Send email to the team members:  Jack Scott   Jennifer Ward   Cynthia Zujko-Miller

Last modified January 21, 1998