We are discussing the main principles to built modern software and the software for collecting stamps in particular. You may consider the discussion either as an attempt to generalize common principles of building software nowadays or as preliminaries before setting a task for the project...

Supporting ordinary tools:

• importing images from scans and other media
• providing different views
• supporting visual effects
• making different types of target database (not to construct new os!)
• reporting

Database should be realized in known "open" format:

• MS Acceess, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
• using ADO or OLE DB technology
• available in different operating systems

Main Principles	Description
Collecting via Internet is the demand of the day: browsing Internet generating HTML pages to show your own stamps via Internet	Collecting via Internet is the demand of the day: small browser targeting the definite items in Internet additional module to interact with known browsers
Supporting ordinary tools: importing images from scans and other media providing different views supporting visual effects reporting	Database should be realized in known "open" format: MS Acceess, SQL Server, Oracle, etc. using ADO or OLE DB technology available in different operating systems