Image and Multimedia Database Resources
Creating Image and Multimedia Databases
General Overviews of
Digital
Imaging
- Introduction
to
Imaging by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant
- Guides to Quality in
Visual
Resource
Imaging, Digital Library Federation, July 2000
- 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
- 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
- File Naming Standards, Registration
- 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
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
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
- 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
Search
Engine Images Attract Copyright Suit, Los Angeles Times, February
21,
2000
Costs of Digital Libraries
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
Three Dimensional Images
Sources for Digital Images
Large-Scale or Multi-Site Projects and
Initiatives
Smaller-Scale Projects and Initiatives
Sample Implementations with Image Browsers
Digital Library Initiatives
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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