Image Database Products to Review

Image DB Projects

• Any selection from the list of Images on the Net that includes significant textual information linked to the images
• Any of the MESL sites

Art & Architecture CD ROMs -- Art & Architecture Library

The following CD ROMs are available in the North Campus Art & Architecture Library for in-library use. Click here for their most recent list. Note: this library should have a computer to run the PC disks (Frank Lloyd Wright) by Sept 22 at the latest; confirm with Assistant Librarian Janine Odlevak (bundles@umich.edu) if you want to use these before that date.

Image Databases -- good choices for student reviews

• The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion by William Allin Storrer (Luna)
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Presentation and Conceptual Drawings by Insight (Luna)
• The Great Buildings Collection by Kevin Matthews
• Great Paintings -- Renaissance to Impressionism, Frick Collection, New York (Digital Collections)

Multimedia CD ROMs -- not good choices for student reviews

• I Photograph to Remember by Pedro Meyer
• Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
• MAUS by Art Speigelman

Commercial CD ROMs -- Shapiro Library

The following CD ROMs will be available in the University Reserves room on the 2nd floor of the Shapiro Undergraduate Library. Check the reserve list filed there under this course to get the appropriate accession number for the CD ROM you want. As of this writing, the room is open 8:30-22:00 M-Th, 10:00-17:00 Sat, and 13:00-22:00 Sunday. They may be checked out for a 24 hour period, and need to be taken elsewhere (i.e. the DIAD Lab) to be viewed. These CD ROMs are supplied courtesy of the Film & Video department.

Fine Art CD ROMs from Digital Collections, Inc.

• Great Paintings -- Renaissance to Impressionism, Frick Collection, New York
• Robert Mapplethorpe
• Masterworks of Japanese Paintings, Joe Price collection
• Ancient Egyptian Art from The Brooklyn Museum
• 1000 Years of Russian Art, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (probably not available until late in term)

Fine Arts CD ROMs from Microsoft

• Microsoft's Art Gallery, London's National Gallery of Art (probably not available until late in term)
• The Ultimate Frank Lloyd Wright (probably not available until late in term)

Image CD ROMs from DK Multimedia (dkmm@phantom.com)

• Eyewitness Virtual Reality (Cat), linking text to images (probably not available until late in term)
• The Way things Work, linking text to images to text (probably not available until late in term)

Multimedia CD ROMs/Image DBs

• With Open Eyes: Images from the Chicago Art Institute

Note: The following are not Image Databases but many of them share a number of common characteristics with Image Databases.

• I Photograph to Remember by Pedro Meyer
• Amnesty Interactive
• Who Built America?
• Complete Maus
• First Person: Donald Norman
• First Emperor of China
• First Person: Marvin Minsky
• Annotated Alice
• Comic Book Confidential
• The Residents: Freak Show
• Planetary Taxi
• Criterion Goes to the Movies
• A World Alive
• Last Chance to See (Doug Adams)
• Truths & Fictions