Pix files on Internet; was Locating files on the Internet
Elliott Parker
>>QuickTime, AIFF, MPEG, and JPEG files for educational (or other) uses.
>>Prefer to FTP them, if possible. Any help would be appreciated.
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>>Don Harder
>>d...@server.greatlakes.k12.mi.us
>
Here are two fairly recent msgs. posted on PACS-L
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 13:44:06 CST
From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIB...@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject: Image Databases results, Pt 1
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PAC...@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
From: Jennifer Cox <jl...@miles.library.arizona.edu>
Subject: Image Databases (results)
Several weeks ago I posted a message to the list asking for information on
image databases. I was asked to post the results which are a combination
of answers to that post, a veronica search, an archie search, and serendipity.
I imagine it only scratches the surface of image databases available. It is
meant to be a representative sample. If you know of other noteworthy sites
please let me know. Thanks for your contributions.
Jennifer Cox, Systems Librarian, University of Arizona
GOPHER SITES
Type=1
Name=ArchiGopher(via Univ. of Michigan)
Path=1
Host=libra.arch.umich.edu
Port=70
A server dedicated to the dissemination of
architectural knowledge. This is a gopher server in
its developmental stages. However, many exciting
ideas and projects are underway which will
transform ArchiGopher into a true multimedia
resource for all architecture faculty and students
worldwide. To date, the following directories are
available:
1) The Kandinsky archive: A sample of five Wassily
Kandinsky paintings.
2) The Palladio archive: A sample of Andrea
Palladio's architectural projects.
3) A sample of the CAD group's collection of
computer images.
4) Musings on and collages of lunar architecture by
Ted Hall.
5) Scenes from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
6) Images of Hellenic and Byzantine architecture
and monuments
7) Links to other gophers including the Vatican
library exhibit and the Johns Hopkins archives.
There are also other projects being considered that
will offer unique resources for architectural
researchers not readily available anywhere else.
Type=1
Name=Astronomy Images (via Univ. of Rennes,
France)
Path=1/Divers serveurs Ftp/Le serveur ftp du CRI-
CICB/Images/ASTRO
Host=roland.univ-rennes1.fr
Port=70
These images come from Pine Mountain
Observatory. Most of these images are taken in the
blue band, some taken in the near-infrared are
designated as ir. In the 'nasagsfc' directory are
some charts of the 1994/05/10 solar eclipse, made
by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and
scanned by James R. Linenschmidt.
Type=1
Name=Centre for Innovative Computer Applications
(Indiana Univ.)
Path=1/Projects
Host=cica_gopher.cica.indiana.edu
Port=70
Topics covered are AVS tools, biology, fluid
dynamics, geology, graph theory, optometry, and
sculpture. There are approximately 24 images.
Type=1
Name=Kodak PhotoCD Images (via Johns Hopkins
Univ.)
Path=1/-->...Images
Host=gopher.hs.jhu.edu
Port=70
This directory contains images and indices of
contemporary architecture, organized into
subdirectories by architect. Other images include
posters and quilts.
Type=1
Name=NASA
Path=1/.Images/Digital Images/NASA
Host=wave.scar.utoronto.ca
Port=70
Subjects include Earth, Magellan, Mars, Moon and
the shuttle. There are approximately 35 images.=20
Type=1
Name=Scarborough Campus ( University of Toronto)
Path=1/.Images/Digital Images/Scarborough
Campus
Host=wave.scar.utoronto.ca
Port=70
As the name implies, there are a few images of the
Scarborough campus in Toronto.
Type=1
Name=Soviet Archives - Library of Congress Exhibit
Path=ftp:seq1.loc.gov@/pub/soviet.archive/imag-
es.gif/
Host=miles.library.arizona.edu
Port=70
In this archive are files relating to a Library of
Congress exhibit of materials from the newly
opened Soviet archives. There are approximately 42
images. These files are available by anonymous ftp
to seq1.loc.gov.
Type=1
Name=Vatican Library Images - Library of Congress
Exhibit
Path=ftp:seq1.loc.gov@/pub/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/a-
vatican_library/
Host=miles.library.arizona.edu
Port=70
ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY &
RENAISSANCE CULTURE
An Exhibit at the Library of Congress. Available by
anonymous FTP from seq1.loc.gov (140.147.3.12)
/pub/vatican.exhibit.
ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND
RENAISSANCE CULTURE presents some 200 of the
Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts,
books, and maps--many of which played a key role
in the humanist recovery of the classical heritage
of Greece and Rome. The exhibition presents the
untold story of the Vatican Library as the
intellectual driving force behind the emergence of
Rome as a political and scholarly superpower
during the Renaissance. The exhibit will be on
display in the Jefferson Building of the Library of
Congress from January 8, 1993 through April 30,
1993. The online exhibit will be available by
anonymous FTP indefinitely.
The exhibit is divided into nine (9) sections: The
Vatican Library (55 images), Archaeology (23
images), Humanism (27 images), Mathematics (19
images), Music (29 images), Medicine & Biology (11
images), Nature Described (8 images), A Wider
World I: How the Orient Came to Rome, and A Wider
World II: How Rome Went to China (21 images
altogether). Each section consists of its own sub-
directory within the /exhibit directory and
contains the exhibit text for that section and
separate image files for each object. This online
exhibit includes not only objects from the Library
of Congress exhibit, but also the alternate objects
(brought from Rome to be used if there were a
problem with one of the primary objects) and items
omitted later in the planning process.
Type=1
Name=Weather Maps and Satellite Images
Path=1/.Images/Digital Images/Weather Maps and
Satellite Images
Host=wave.scar.utoronto.ca
Port=70
The topics in the image database are east infrared,
mrf, North American infrared, North American
visual, radar images, sa, strip charts, surface
analysis, upper air, water vapor, west infrared, and
miscellaneous. There are approximately 540
images.
Type=1
Name=Sample Images
Path=1/Sample Images
Host=s1.msi.umn.edu
Port=70
This is an eclectic test collection with about 50
images.
Type=1
Name=Biological Images
Path=1/images
Host=huh.harvard.edu
Port=70
This directory contains images of plant species,
which were derived from scanning transparencies
taken by museum and herbarium collectors during
expeditions. Associated with these image files is
descriptive catalog information which includes: the
Latin species name, the location where it was
photographed in the wild, the date of the
photograph, the collector/photographer's name, the
name of the image file(s) of that species in this
archive, and the name of the institution the
photographer/collector is associated with. =20
Type=1
Name=Flood images
Path=ftp:climate.gsfc.nasa.gov@/pub/gumley/
Host=ucogo.UCSC.EDU=20
Port=70
Two cloud-free high resolution remotely sensed
images of flooding in the US Midwest.
Type=1
Name=NASA Ames GMS vis/IR images
Path=ftp:explorer.arc.nasa.gov@/pub/Weather/gms/
Host=ucogo.UCSC.EDU
Port=70
Approximately 28 meteorology related images.
Type=1
Name=Stanford archive of Europe Meteosat images
Path=ftp:wilbur.stanford.edu@/pub/weathergifs/
Host=ucogo.UCSC.EDU
Port=70
Approximately 35 meteosat images.
Type=1
Name=Weather Images
Path=1/Images
Host=unidata.ucar.edu
Port=70
Unidata is a national program to help universities
acquire and use weather data for teaching and
research. The Unidata Program Center is providing
these electronic weather maps to illustrate the
products universities can generate with their own
Unidata systems. There are about 400 images.
Type=1
Name=Earth and Mineral Science Images
Path=1/images
Host=pangaea.ems.psu.edu
Port=71
Twelve images.
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 13:44:25 CST
From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIB...@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject: Image Databases results, Pt 2
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PAC...@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Type=1
Name=Images
Path=1/Data/Images
Host=atlantic.evsc.Virginia.EDU
Port=70
Seven images. The purpose of this gopher is to
provide access to information (both data derived
from VCR/LTER research and about future
activities) to ecological researchers. Research
activities of the VCR/LTER focus on the mosaic of
transitions and steady-state systems that
comprise the barrier-island/lagoon/mainland
landscape of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Primary
study sites are located on Hog Island, Parramore
Island and mainland marshes near Nassawadox VA.
The VCR/LTER maintains a laboratory facility in
Oyster, VA.
Type=1
Name=Gif Images about the University of
Rochester (for on line viewing)
Path=1/About the University of Rochester/ Gif
Images about the University of Roc
hester (for on line viewing)
Host=renoir.cc.rochester.edu
Port=70
Approximately 35 images.
Type=1
Name=Gif & Jpeg Images Files
Path=1/Miscellaneous/Maps & Pictures (from off
campus network)/Gif & Jpeg Images Files
Host=renoir.cc.rochester.edu
Port=70
The topics are PennInfo pictures (approximately
263 images on a variety of African topics ranging
from Ibis to King Tutankamen), NASA images,
network maps, paintings (23 paintings by DaVinci,
Dali, Escher, Renoir, and Van Gogh), pictures, planes
(35 images), views (41 images of various locations
like New York and Monument Valley), and
Washington image collections.
Type=1
Name=Images.........Maps, satellite images, etc.
Path=menu wservice!191/weathpix.info
Host=UKCC.uky.edu
Port=70
Four up-to-the minute U.S. weather maps.
Type=1
Name=Images
Path=1/Images
Host=gopher.acl.lanl.gov
Port=70
Nine images from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Type=1
Name=Images of the Earth
Path=1/Schoolhouse/carrels/EarthSci/EarthDay/Im-
ages
Host=morse.cns.vt.edu
Port=70
The Blacksburg Electronic Village is a project to
link an entire town in Southwestern Virginia with a
21st century telecommunications infrastructure.
This infrastructure will bring a useful set of
information services and interactive
communications facilities into the daily activities
of citizens and businesses. This database has 4
images under an education directory.
Type=1
Name=Modal Analysis Issues (Scanned page images)
Path=1/ijaema/issues
Host=borg.lib.vt.edu
Port=70
These files are page images from The International
Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal
Analysis, v7n2-v7n4 April-October 1992. Each
directory represents a separate article. When this
experimental archive is complete, four issues will
be available. Each article will be accompanied by
an ASCII abstract.
Type=1
Name=Pictures of Purdue CS Department Faculty
and Staff
Path=1/Purdue_cs/Pictures
Host=arthur.cs.purdue.edu
Port=70
Fifty seven pictures with e-mail addresses for
faculty and staff.
Type=1
Name=Ascii Pictures
Path=1/Miscellaneous/Maps & Pictures (from off
campus network)/Ascii Pictures
Host=renoir.cc.rochester.edu
Port=70
Variety of 50 ascii pictures. Clip art for mail.
Type=1
Name=Pictures of UCI from OAS
Path=1/departments/oas/xspace/pictures
Host=cwis.oac.uci.edu
Port=70
Eight pictures of the University of California at
Irvine.
Type=1
Name=Bodleian Libraries (inc. Radcliffe Science
Library)
Path=1/bodley
Host=rsl.ox.ac.uk
Port=70
Six images mounted in an experimental server.
Type=1
Name=Kevin's World
Path=1/tourist information center/Broadway
Avenue/Strange Interactions Art Gallery/the
artwork
Host=skynet.usask.ca
Port=70
I make a living as a physicist/programmer while
sneaking time to do my art. This show is an
attempt to bring those two very different halves of
my life together a bit. In the future I would like to
explore "art under the influence of computer
networking" in a way that takes into account the
fact that it is very different to download a scanned
image of a painting than to see the same painting in
a gallery, or to actually hold it in your hands. For
the moment this show is more a vehicle to get my
art seen than an actual essential element of the
artwork itself.
TELNET SITES
Earth Images Catalogue LEDA
The ESA/Earthnet Database of Space Bourne Earth
Observation Imagery
Telnet GLIS.CR.USGS.GOV or 152.61.192.54
The Global Land Information System (GLIS) provides
a centralized, interactive source of land data sets
for use in continental-scale earth science research
and global change studies. GLIS includes directory-
, user guide- , and inventory-level information
about data sets residing both at the EROS Data
Center and elsewhere.
FTP SITES
FTP explorer.arc.nasa.gov
/ftp/pub/Weather
Folks, we're now announcing for public access a set
of files available for anonymous ftp, containing
scientific quality weather satellite images. We
have a regular collection of Japanese GMS images,
both in IR and visible light. These images are
received at a ground station at Hickam AFB, HI, and
processed at the University of Hawaii, then moved
to an archive site at NASA Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field CA. From there, they are copied to
shadow archives sites. Each archive site contains
the last 4 days worth of images transmitted by the
GMS satellite on a revolving basis.
FTP snow.nohrsc.nws.gov [192.46.108.1] /pub
Satellite areal extent of snow cover data are
available on the Internet in near-real-time.
The National Operational Hydrologic Remote
Sensing Center is distributing satellite snow data
derived from AVHRR and GOES for major portions of
the U.S., southern Canada and Alaska.
Various snow-related images in GIF format. US
snow cover map updated weekly. JPEG of current
AVHRR images. Also included are JPEG images of
the east coast during the March 1993 blizzard, and
of the midwest during the July 1993 flood, and
California during the November 1993 fires.
FTP spectrum.xerox.com
or 192.70.225.78 /pub/map
Various USGS data in subdirectories.
FTP sseop.jsc.nasa.gov or
146.154.11.34 /anonymous
Many pictures taken from the space shuttle. Files
are in a 512x512 format as red, green, and blue
bitmaps.
FTP
tehran.Stanford.Edu or 36.28.0.189 /Iran_Lib
Iran_lib is created in order to distribute files
related to Iran. We hope these would be interesting
and useful to the Iranians and non-Iranians who
appreciate the rich culture of Iran.
FTP sunsite.unc.edu or
152.2.22.81 /pub/academic/history/marshall
Database of military history contains many images
under the topics maritime,airforce,civil war,
vietnam, WW1, and WW2.
FTP
draco.acs.uci.edu or 128.200.34.12 /pub/rec.bi-
cycles/pictures
Twenty four images of bicycles and bicycle related
pictures.
IMAGES AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY
server-addr: umi.dra.com
server-ip: 192.65.218.55
server-port: 210
server-comments: Data Research Associates server
contact-name: Data Research Sales Department
(800) 325-0888, +1-314-432-1100
contact-email: Sa...@DRANET.DRA.COM
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dbtitle: Image delivery of many articles in the UMI
ABI/Inform database.
dbdesc: Image delivery of many of the articles
found in the UMI ABI/Inform database. Charge is on
a per article basis and this service does require a
subscription to UMI ABI/Inform or Periodical
Abstracts.
dbprovider: UMI/Data Courier, Louisville, KY
dbaccess: product / subscription required