The first Inmagic Museum User Group meeting for 2012 was hosted by Puffing Billy Archives. Members were treated to a lunchtime train trip between Belgrave and Emerald Park Lake. It was a sunny Melbourne autumn day with wonderful views from the train windows and lots of DB/Text Works conversations over a light lunch. Volunteers from Puffing Billy Archives provided a commentary on the train’s history and highlights of the countryside....

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We regret to have the sad duty of announcing the recent death of Jenny Hale, Maxus’ long time representative in Brisbane. After battling illness in the last few years, Jenny died on 11th February at the Mater Hospital. To those who knew Jenny, she was a vibrant personality who enjoyed her work supporting Inmagic software and lived a full life including extensive travel to visit friends around the world with her husband Kevin. For those who wish to show their support it has been requested that instead of sending flowers, a donation be made in Jenny’s name to the Mater Foundation to help further research for cancer.  For those wishing to make an In Memoriam donation, please contact the Mater Foundation on (07) 3163 8000 or email foundation@mater.org.au. All of us at Maxus extend our deepest sympathy to Kevin and all of Jenny’s family and friends. She will be greatly missed. Arrangements for continued support of Inmagic users in Queensland will be put in place very soon, and all users will be...

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DB/Text Works for SQL version 13 was released on December 6th, giving users of DB/Text Works and Web Publisher Pro on the SQL platform access to the features already added to the traditional Text Works software. ...

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The Italian Historical Society (IHS) was established in 1980 to collect, preserve and promote the history of Italian immigration to Australia. The IHS photographic collection has been online, accessible via Web Publisher Pro, for about two years, and IHS has long wanted to make the large and varied collection better known and more widely available online. It was with some excitement that nearly 8,000 publicly accessible photographs from the IHS collection have recently been harvested into Trove and are now available for all to search and view. ...

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Inmagic library and database software brands have been acquired by Integrated Library System supplier SydneyPLUS of Vancouver, Canada. This move is a very positive step that will see the continuation of the Inmagic brand, allowing Inmagic developers to concentrate on enhanced customer support and development of the core software: DB/Text Works, Web Publisher Pro and the Inmagic Library Suite. ...

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Inmagic, Inc. recently released Presto 3.8. One of the key new enhancements is query logging and reporting. A new Event type has been added that logs queries. The Event Log Report tracks the query itself, which Content Types were queried, how many records were found and who was the user. Event log reports can now be filtered by a date range.   Some of the other new features and enhancements include:...

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Organising your records by geographic places? The Clearinghouse at Women’s Health Victoria (WHV) has constructed and is maintaining a simple Geographic Thesaurus using Inmagic Text Works. Using the controlled vocabulary for places in their thesaurus, WHV are adding keywords to indicate geographic coverage. Searching the Clearinghouse collection for material limited by geographic area will be simple. ...

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Inmagic, Inc. recently released Presto 3.7, with many new features and enhancements, including: Connector technology with ability to plug into and search existing internal repositories and/or to extract files and associated meta-data; the ability to sort any browse categories; pre-built content types available to use; and  Quick Search now available in menu bar from every Presto page. ...

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The Rail KnowledgeBank, developed by Cooperative Research Centre for Rail Innovation (CRC for Rail Innovation) using Presto for Social Libraries, has recently been showcased in Inmagic’s blog. ...

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Inmagic has released DB/Text Works and Web Publisher Pro Version 13. ...

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