Image DataBase for Photo Archive

[Roy Chung]

I believe I have seen a commercial company with some package that stores
documents and retrieves etc. I dont recall its name.
However, what intrigues me is the nature of the task itself, and the solution
that occurs to me. You use the phrase "digitize".
1. I think that you would want to scan those photographs,( using a color
scanner if your collections include color photography )
2. Those scanned images could be loaded as individual " cards" in HYPERCARD on
the Macintosh. The system would then allow you to retrieve them sequentially,
randomly, or ad hoc in any fashion, or just pullout one or a set to look at.
It would allow you to move backwards, forwards, and via "buttons" link to
written descriptive materials about the photographs. I know that some Libraries
have used hyperCard in this fashion, and there is a periodical devoted to this
, altho I cant recall its name at this moment.
3. Similar systems have been developed on the PCs, and one that comes to mind
is ToolBook. (Take a look at J.K. Pierce. Toolbook Companion, Microsoft Press)
4. Taking a broader system view of your task. What you need is to develop an
interactive multimedia system which will store,update, retrieve and present
your phototographs, and provide sound, animation and written scripts accessible
in both a linear and non-linear fashion. You could take a movie camera and
shoot those million photographs, store them on compact discs, and retrieve them
via multimedia systems.
Finally I do not know the level of your exposure to multimedia systemsin
general or specific tools like HyperCard or ToolBook in particular; but these
systems can be set up so that for example you point to a word on this page and
out jumps a subwindow with a photograph and written stuff about that word, and
cues to point to for further visual probing, and sound and motion videos if
necessary.
Hope this helps .
Roy Chung (Chu...@uni.edu}
Geography Dept., Univ. of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0406 (319-273-2772)
tools like HyperCard or Toolboo

[Spencer W. Thomas]

I just received the April issue of Advanced Imaging magazine. It has
an article about IBM's QBIC (query by image content) system. I don't
think it's a commercial product, though.

E-mail Wayne Niblack at nib...@almaden.ibm.com for more info, I
guess.

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[JB...@psuvm.psu.edu]

In article <INGRAFX%9304271...@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>, Denise Mayorga
<d.ma...@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU> says:
>
>At the Center for American History, we are in the planning stages for
>developing an image database for the approximately 1 million prints,
>slides, and negatives in our archive. Our goal is to digitize the
>
>My questions are these:
>
>1. Are any of you aware of anyone currently involved in such a project?

Sona Andrews and Dave Tilton are currently developing the "Interactive
Multimedia Cartography Project" at the Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dept. of Geography. They are using MacroMind Director (Macintosh) to
create an interface with images of maps from the AGS map collection,
a project which sounds similar to yours. They have presented a few
papers on their work.

email: til...@convex.csd.uwm.edu

jbk

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