title: Managing medical research data with a Web-Interfacing Repository Manager.
abstract: This paper describes the Web-Interfacing Repository Manager (WIRM), a perl toolkit for managing and deploying multimedia data, which is built entirely from free, platform-independent components. The WIRM consists of an object-relational API layered over a relational database, with built-in support for file management and CGI programming. The basic underlying data structure for all WIRM data is the repository object, a perl associative array whose values are bound to a row of a table in the relational database. Based on our experience implementing a target application (the Brain Mapper Console), we describe five stages through which a system passes as it evolves from a primitive file hierarchy to a full-fledged repository console.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Jakobovits
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Brinkley
mesh_terms: D001931:Brain Mapping; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D019212:Multimedia; D012106:Research; D012984:Software