Image/Multimedia Database Resources
Image and Multimedia Database Resources
Creating Image and Multimedia Databases
General Overviews of Digital Imaging
Information about Metadata and Standards
- Sites related to Image Metadata
- Sites related to Metadata in general
- Joint Workshop on Metadata Registries, July 8-11, 1997, UC Berkeley
- Dublin Core main homepage
- The Warwick Metadata Workshop, reported by Lorcan Dempsey and Stu Weibel in the July 1996 issue of D-Lib Magazine
- Notes from UK participants at the 4th Dublin Core Workshop, March 3-7, Canberra
- The Dublin Standards, report from the 1995 NCSA/OCLC Metadata workshop
- Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk, Library of Congress' mappings between these
- Information about Metadata Standards (URCs, SGML, etc.)
- Resource Description Framework (RDF), a superset of the W3 Consortium's Next-Generation Platform for Internet Content Selection
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) from the W3 Consortium
- Metadata Resources for Digital Libraries
- All kinds of information about Standard Generalized Markup Language (SMGL) by Robin Cover
- Metadata for Digital Libraries: Architecture and Design Rationale by Michelle Baldonado, Chen-Chuan K. Chang, Luis Gravano, Andreas Paepcke, Stanford Digital Library Project
- SGML and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Resources complied by the Univ of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative
- Framing the Picture: Standards for Imaging Systems by Jennifer Trant
- Computerized Index to Museum Information (CIMI Project)
- Berkeley Finding Aids Project
- Duke SGML Finding Aids Project, includes SGML-to-HTML for WWW browsing
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art, by the Getty Art History Information Program
- Cataloging issues for image databases of historical artifacts by Paul Lefrak (student paper)
- Authority and vocabulary control in image collections by Karen Spencer (student paper)
- Faceted Classifications and Thesauri by Barbara Perles (paper not available)
- Cataloging photographs in archival repositories by Amy James (student paper)
- Issues of scale and size in visual databases by Mark Handel (student paper)
Ethical & Legal Issues
Image Capture and Compression
Image Quality & Conservation
- Guidelines for Special Collections contemplating putting images up on the WWW
- Preserving Digital Information, Report from the Task Force (Research Libraries Group & Commission on Preservation& Access)
- Benchmarking Image Quality: From Conservation to Presentation by Anne Kenney
- Preservation in the Digital Age: An annotated Bibliography by Jack Kessler (from CARL Conference, 10/21/95)
- Images: quantity is not always quality, Michael Lesk, Director, Computer Science Research Department, Bellcore Laboratories
- Digital preservation: a time bomb for Digital Libraries, Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan
- Color printing: Four color process: Advancements and issues by Rebeccah Kamp (student paper)
- Electronic Beowulf Project, the British Library
- Papyrus Digitization Project, University of Michigan Library
Technical Protection for Images
Retrieval issues and search engines for WWW Databases
Content-based Retrieval
(Image DB applications incorporating automatic indexing & relevancy feedback)
- IBM's Query By Image Content incorporating attributes for color percentages, color layout, and texture
- Virage demo incorporating attributes for color, composition, texture, and structure
- UC Berkeley's Cypress, an outgrowth of the Chabot Project
- VisualSEEK from Columbia University
- Painting With Fire: Pewabic Vessels in the Margaret Watson Parker Collection, Vlad Wiebut's class project incorporting basic query-by-content functions
- Papers
- Content-based searching of large-image databases, Mary Larsgaard, Alexandria Digital Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Content-based Multimedia Data Management and Efficient Remote Access, Brent Seales, James Griffioen, and Raj Yavatkar, Assistant Professors of Computer Science, University of Kentucky
- Image Content Searching is Here, written by Vlad Wielbut for the Image Database class
Image Databases on the Net
Cultural Repositories' Collections
Unique or Special Image Databases
Three Dimensional Images
Stock Photographs, Commercial Image DBs
Large-Scale Projects and Initiatives
Smaller-Scale Projects and Initiatives
Sample Implementations with Image Browsers
Additional Resources
Multimedia Resources
Research Papers
- The Changing Role of Photographic Collections With the Advent of Digitization by Howard Besser. Draft of chapter to appear in Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), Museums and Emerging Technologies, Washington: American Association of Museums, 1996
- The Transformation of the Museum and the Way it's Perceived by Howard Besser. Draft of chapter to appear in Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), Museums and Emerging Technologies, Washington: American Association of Museums, 1996
- Movies-on-demand May Significantly Change the Internet by Howard Besser. Appeared in the October 1994 ASIS Bulletin theme issue on Entertainment Technology and Information Services
- The Changing Role of Photographic Collections With the Advent of Digitization Discussion Paper for Working Group for Digital Image in Curatorial Practice, George Eastman House, June 4, 1994;
(get complete conference proceedings)
- The Information Highway must be a Two-Way Street: The Arts and Humanities Communities Cannot be merely Consumers Presentation by Howard Besser to the Convergence Conference: Arts
and Humanities and the NII
- Reconnecting Science and Humanities in Digital Libraries, Oct 19-21 1995 Symposium sponsored by Univ of Kentucky and British Library
- The Digital Work of Art in an Age of Immaculate and Promiscuous Reproduction, talk by Steve Dietz of Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art to ICHIM '95 conference
- Records management in the commercial sector by Cory Brandt (student paper)
- Document imaging: Improving records management at Ultracom by Cory Brandt (student paper)
- Subject Heading Terms Used for Photographs in the Walter P. Reuther Labor Collections by
Amy James (student paper)
- The evolution of access to visual information by Deborah Westmoreland (student paper)
- Hypercontextualizing the work of William Blake by Rachel Onuf (student paper)
- Digitization issues for academic archives by Rachel Lewellen (student paper)
- Imaging across the network - Issues and trends by Susan Hinton (paper not available)
- Maps: Quality display, usability and practicality on a computer screen and in hard copy by Randy Kemp (student paper)
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Paul Peters dies11/18/96