The main purpose of the CD-ROM is promoting the use of such data by showing it both easier and centered on the specific needs of the different types of the several potential users. The "Table of Contents" outlines the envisaged users.

     In doing so, as much as we provide the users with some protection against possible time-wasting Internet navigations, "Bioimages for Europe '98" is also an effective time-saving tool for many of the person interested in the "Visible Human Dataset". While most demos are fully resident on the CD-ROM, some of them include prompt Internet-links to the their originating Web sites, available to the public, according to a last update made on July 6th, 1998. In these cases an alive Internet connection is necessary for allowing the top features.

     All data stored on the CD-ROM can be viewed using a normal Web browser, such as Netscape Communicator 4 or MS Internet Explorer 4 or above, with, at least, a resolution of 800x600 pixels.

     Just open the file: default.htm

     Some movie may require the installation of Apple Quicktime.

     There are no minimum requirements to see this CD-ROM, other than a machine able execute a normal Web browser. However some demos need a JAVA capable browser (the two noted above are full JAVA capable), one of it also with a VRML plug-in installed (available for example from SGI), running on a machine able to execute computing in a good way.

     For this reason we suggest as minimum requirement a PC based platform with at least 16Mb of RAM and Windows95/98/NT installed.

     No internet connection is needed, but for best usage of all the potentialities of the CD-ROM could be necessary to have one ready to use.

     The best use of the CD-ROM will be with an Internet connection alive. Nevertheless some use is allowed also on the CD-ROM only.

     We have tryed to graphically score the extensions of the natural use of the Internet connections in the different application programs.

     We marked them the following way:
more than 95% of the content are stored on the CD-ROM
up to 60% of the content are stored on the CD-ROM
less than 35% of the content are stored on the CD-ROM
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