Related Resources

This is a growing collection of web links to material related to the major issues in the MESL project.

Participants who have suggestions about items to add to the list should send them to the WWW Working Group.

Intellectual Property and Copyright

• United States Copyright Office: http://www.loc.gov/copyright

  One of the links from the Library of Congress Homepage, this site has a wealth of information and U.S. Copyright Office documents. Copyright Basics talks about what copyright is, who can claim it, what works are protected, what arenąt protected, a notice of copyright, and more.

• IFLA Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/i fla/II/cpyright.htm

  An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary information sources on copyright and intellectual property.

• Copyright Clearance Center: http://www.copyright.com

  Contains a listing of their services, online registration to their services, and a catalog of registered titles to preview. Under *Some New/Some Newer* is an article about the startup of a collective licensing agency for photographs. Media Photographers Copyright Agency has signed a partnership agreement with CCC to maintain a searchable database of photographic images that will be sent to clients via CD-ROM or online. It also has links to other web copyright information.

• Stanford University Copyright & Fair Use site: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

  This site is sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, FindLaw Internet Legal Resources and the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources.

• Coalition for Networked Information (cni.org)
  • CNI Copyright Archive
  • CNICop yright Documents (includes FAQs)

Protection of Digital Information

• Howard Besser's Fall 1996 Course on Protecting Digital Information: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is290-1/f96/index.html

  Includes information and links to resources on digital signatures, encryption, watermarking, containers and encapsulation, authentication and permission controls

• LITA/LAMA Presentation on the Encryption: http://129.79.33.62./jm docs/lita96now.html

  Slides from a presentation at the LITA/LAMA conference, October 1996, presenting the basic concepts surrounding encryption and authentication of digital documents.

• IBM Digital Library: http://www.software.ibm.co m/is/dig-lib/

  One solution to protection and authentication, as an example of emerging efforts from the commercial sector.

Organizations

• American Association of Museums: http://www.netready.com/AAM/
• Association of Art Museum Directors' Art Museum Network: http://www.ago.on.ca/AAMDO/
• Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information: http://www.cimi.org/cimi/
• Getty Information Institute: http://www.gii.getty.edu
• Museum Computer Network: http://world.std.com/~mcn/MCN.h tml

Imaging and Image Databases

• Framing the Picture: Standards for Imaging Systems / by Jennifer Trant, International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums / Museum Computer Network Joint Conference, San Diego, California, October 1995
  
• Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database / by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant, Getty Art History Information Program, 1995
  
• Prepari ng Quality Images for Computer Networks / by John P. Weise, The University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies
  
• The Digital Work of Art in an Age of Immaculate and Promiscuous Reproduction / by Steve Dietz, National Museum of American Art
  
• Image and Multimedia Database Resources / links gathered by Howard Besser
• Image and Multimedia Retrieval, Research Agenda for Cultural Heritage on Information Networks, The Getty Art History Information Program / by Donna M. Romer, Eastman Kodak
  
• The Clearinghouse of Image Databases and IMAGELIB listserv archives, the University of Arizona
  

Standards for Image Description and Data Interchange

• Data Standards Committee of the Visual Resources Association
  
• SGML for Cultural Heritage Information / by Joseph Busch
  
• Standards Framework for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information / by David Bearman and John Perkins
  
• Describing Image Files from the Fall1994 Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant
  
• CNI/OCLC Metadata WorkshopWorkshop on Metadata for Networked Images

URL: http://www.ahip.getty.edu/mesl/resources.html