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  Image and Multimedia Database Resources

Index to this set of links

General Overviews of Digital Imaging
Information about Metadata and Standards
Ethical & Legal Issues
Image Capture and Compression
Image Quality & Conservation
Technical Protection for Images
Retrieval issues and search engines for WWW Databases
Content-based Retrieval
Costs of Digital Libraries

Image Databases on the Net
Cultural Repositories' Collections
Unique or Special Image Databases
Three Dimensional Images
Sources for Digital Images
Large-Scale Projects and Initiatives
Smaller-Scale Projects and Initiatives
Sample implementations with Image Browsers
Digital Library Initiatives

Additional Resources
Multimedia Resources
Research Papers
Jobs
Misc
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 Creating Image and Multimedia Databases

General Overviews of Digital Imaging

• Introduction to Imaging by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant

• Best Practices for Scanning and Metadata, by Howard Besser, for California Digital Library and for Digital Library Federation's MOA2 White Paper

• Procedures and Practices for Scanning, by Howard Besser, for Canadian Heritage Information Network, 1997

• Digital Formats for Content Reproductions, by Carl Fleischhauer, Library of Congress

• Digital Image Collections: Issues and Practice, by Michael Ester

• Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet, Stephen E. Ostrow, Council on Library and Information Resources, February 1998

• Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, by Anne Kenney and Steve Chapman

• Recent image database research & information

• Image Database bibliography

• Howard Besser's Fall 1995 class on Image Databases

• Howard Besser's Winter 1996 class on the Impact of New Information Technologies

• Documentation on Imaging created by Information Technology Services (ITS) of the School of Information, University of Michigan

Information about Metadata and Standards

• Sites related to Image Metadata

  • CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Conference announcement page and report by Stu Weibel in the Jan 1997 issue of D-Lib Magazine

  • Making of America II (MOA2 White Paper)

  • Howard Besser's Best Practices for Image Capture (focused on scanning and administrative metadata) for the California Digital Library (7/99)

  • Image Metadata:  National Information Standards Organization Invitational Meeting on Technical Metadata Elements for Image Files (Howard's opening presentation | meeting summary)

  • Document by Howard Besser concerning Standards for Images (an effort that was coordinated by both the Coalition for Networked Information and the Computerized Interchange of Museum Information)

• Sites related to Metadata in general

  • IFLA's Metadata Rescources for Digital Libraries

  • Digital Library Collaboratory Working Group on Metadata, NSF/ERCIM

  • 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

• Image File Formats, Standards

  • JPEG-JBIG Homepage (important info)

  • ISO JTC1 SC29 Standards for encoding and compression (JPEG, JFIF, SPIFF)

  • The FlashPix file format

  • Hewlett Packard's Internet Imaging Protocol

• File Naming Standards, Registration

  • A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services by Bob Kahn and Robert Wilensky (contains description of "handles")

  • PURLs (Persistent URLs)

• National Digital Library Federation

• Making of America II, particularly structural metadata

• Framing the Picture: Standards for Imaging Systems by Jennifer Trant

• The sRGB Color Monitor Standard

• Computerized Index to Museum Information (CIMI Project)

• Encoded Archival Description">DTD for Archival Finding Aids

• 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

• Information about Copyright

• Imprimatur (European attempt to develop a coherant consistent way of dealing with electronic copyright)

• Images and the WWW: Copyright issues by Eileen Fenton (student paper)

• Images and the WWW: A Guide to Copyright Issues Surrounding the Use of Images in Web Sites for Nonprofit Educational Organizationsstudent project by Eileen Fenton

• Electronic publishing and Copyright by Wendy Burnett (student paper)

• Museum collections and the question of copyright: Privatizing the public domain by Brad Taylor (paper not available)

• Ethically questionable use of images on the Net

• Howard's papers on Social Effects of New Information Technology

Image Capture and Compression

• Basic guide to scanning  by Howard Besser, for Canadian Heritage Information Network

• Image Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

• Background Technical Papers on Digital Imaging, American Memory, Library of Congress

• Technical Recommendations for Digital Imaging Projects, Columbia University

• Information about Scanning

• Information about Image File Formats

• Paper on Image Compression -- A survey of compressed domain processing techniques, Brian Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

• Batch compression and thumbnail creation of sets of images by ITS

• Preparing Quality Images for Computer Networks by John Weise

• Moving towards better images by Drin Gyuk (student paper)

• Taking a closer look at GIFs, JPEGs, and PICTs by Maia Jin (student paper)

• NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials, National Archives

• Manuscript Digitization Demonstration Project, American Memory, Library of Congress

Image Quality & Conservation

• Howard's links on Digital Longevity

• Implications in Digitizing Special Collections Materials: the Collection, the Institution, Scholarship, Interoperability, Longevity, Howard Besser's talk to ALA's Rare Books & Manuscripts preconference, 6/23/99

• 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)

• Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital Images Produced from Photographic, Microphotographic, and Various Paper Formats by Jim Reilly and Franziska Frey, May 1996

• Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards by Franziska Frey, RLG's DigiNews 1:3, December 15, 1997

• 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)

• International Color Consortium

• Electronic Beowulf Project, the British Library

• Papyrus Digitization Project, University of Michigan Library

• Commission on Preservation and Access

• Preservation in the Digital World by Paul Conway

• Building the Digital Research Library: Preservation and Access at the Heart of Scholarship by Peter Graham

• Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access; A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators, by Anne Kenney and Oya Rieger

Technical Protection for Images

• Technical Protection Links

• Possible technology-based solutions for the display and distribution of copyrighted electronic images by Deborah Torres (student paper)

• Protecting Access to Images in the Museum Education Site Licensing Project: Legal and Technical Approaches by Cara List (student paper)

• Commercial digital signatures (Digimarc Corporation)

• Image protection for archives, special collection libraries and museums in the WWW environment by Cameron Trowbridge (student paper)

• Protecting digital images: Image quality and labelling by Cameron Trowbridge (student paper)

Retrieval issues and search engines for WWW Databases

• Explanation of Michigan MESL searching (access limited to umich domain)

• Introduction to CGI Programming (Univ of Utah)

• The Common Gateway Interface (NCSA document)

• WWW to PAT Gateway: Exploiting an SGML-Aware System through the Web by the Univ of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, explains how to submit WWW queries to a body of SGML-encoded text

• Duke SGML Finding Aids Project, includes SGML-to-HTML for WWW browsing

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

• QBIC Demo with searchable database of U.S. postage stamps

• Demo for Virage's Videologger product (requires Shockwave and RealPlayer) incorporating attributes for color, composition, texture, and structure

• Illustra's DataBlade Visual Information Retrieval Module (incorporating Virage) detailed product info

• Tecmath Video Analysis DataBlade Module (also incorporates Virage) detailed product info

• UC Berkeley Digital Library's Computer Vision Research (Content-based image retrieval)

• Finding Naked People

• Muscle Fish (content-based audio retrieval)

• VisualSEEK (demo requires Java) and other content-based retrieval software from from Columbia University

• Excalibur's Visual RetrievalWare (also used in Yahoo's Image Surfer)

• Painting With Fire: Pewabic Vessels in the Margaret Watson Parker Collection, Vlad Wiebut's class project incorporting basic query-by-content functions

• 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

• Finding photographs by Kathy Steiner (student paper)

• Search Engine Images Attract Copyright Suit, Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2000

Costs of Digital Libraries

• The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data, UC Berkeley Mellon Grant to Examine the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project

• A Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for the Creation, Storage and Dissemination of a Digitized Document Collection by Brother Richard Lemberg, UCB dissertation, 1995 (pdf format)

• JSTOR: The Need

• Substituting Images for Books: The Economics for Libraries by Mike Lesk

Image Databases on the Net

Cultural Repositories' Collections

• American Memory Project from Library of Congress

• NARA Archival Information Locator, National Archives

• Impact Guide to Museums on the Web produced by Howard Besser's students. Newest museum entries

• Museum Computer Network

• University Art Museum, UC Berkeley

• Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley

• Shapes & Uses of California Indian Basketry, California Indian Library Collection, UC Berkeley

• The Smithsonian

• Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art

• Image Collections in the Ann Arbor Area for site visit, papers, and project assignments and results of student site visits. (student reports from sites actually visited)

• Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection, Bancroft Library, Finding Aids Project

• UC Berkeley Museum Informatics

• Oxford Photographs

• Univ of Virginia Rotunda Centenial Exhibition by Christie Stephenson and Edward Gaynor

• Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile architecture and art database

• Painting With Fire: Pewabic Vessels in the Margaret Watson Parker Collection, Vlad Wiebut's class project incorporting basic query-by-content functions

Unique or Special Image Databases

• Tshirt Image Database.

• University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services Image Services, putting a broad cross-section of images online

• Prototype for Academic Press' Image Directory, extensive information about images available from a variety of owners

• Beverly SILS projectonly available from umich.edu

• Image sites on the Net

• Final Class Projects for Fall 1995 Image DB class

• Medical image teaching files on the WWW by Nancy Scherer (student paper)

Three Dimensional Images

• QTVR: A Practical Guide to what is involved in building QuickTime VR applications

• A Web-based simulation of a Quicktime VR application of the Saarinen House at Cranbrook Institute produced by Fall 1995 Image DB class

Sources for Digital Images

• Image Directory by Academic Press

• Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), Art Museum Directors' Association

• Museum Digital Licensing Consortium (MDLC), American Association of Museums

• Corbis Media

• Digital Collections, Inc.

• Publishers Depot, Picture Network International (PNI), now owned by Kodak

• Muse, West Stock Photo Agency

• Black Star stock photos

Large-Scale or Multi-Site Projects and Initiatives

• National Digital Library Federation

• Museum Education Site Licences (MESL) Project and Questionnaire design for the Evaluation of the Museum Education Site Licensing Project by Cara List (student paper)

• Making of America Project

• The Reach Project (Record Export for Art and Cultural Heritage) to create a testbed of museum object records

• Museums Online (A collection of European Art Repositories

• Interesting Image Database Projects

• The Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach (CHICO) Project and a Review and Recommendations by Brad Taylor (paper not available)

• Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) Digital Image Access Project (DIAP)

Smaller-Scale Projects and Initiatives

• Creation of an Image Management Database for the Historical Center for the Health Sciences by Deborah Torres (student paper)

• Proposed interface for scale information by Mark Handel (student paper)

• Stearns database issues and Discussion of databases for the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments: Issues and options by Nancy Vlahakis (student papers)

• Ophthalmology Image Database Search Engine by Wendy Burnett (student paper)

Sample Implementations with Image Browsers

• Architectural Image Browser, University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies limited access

• Impact Guide to Museums on the Web produced by Howard Besser's students. Newest museum entries

• Art Image Browser, University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies limited access( project explanation)

• Digital Image Center, University of Virginia

• Earthquake Image Information System, UC Berkeley

• Specimen Management System for California Herbaria (SMASCH), UC Berkeley

• SPIRO, UC Berkeley Architecture Slide Library

Digital Library Initiatives

• ARL Digital Initiatives Database

• Summary Report of the Series of Joint NSF-EU Working Groups on Future Directions for Digital Library Research

• European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Workshop Reports on Digital Library Issues

 Additional Resources

Multimedia Resources

• Moving Images/Newmedia Moving Images/Newmedia Resources, compiled by Howard Besser (older version)

• A net audio database primer by Victoria Turk (student paper)

• Webpages for Howard Besser's Winter 1995 Multimedia/Distance Learning class

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)

Jobs

• Listings of Interesting jobs

Misc

• The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)

• ArtSource, Networked resources on art and architecture, by Mary Molinaro, Univ of Kentucky

• Favorite WWW sites of some art librarians
   

  This page was compiled by Howard Besser and refined by Rachel Onuf 4/96. Last edited 2/25/00