Image Archiving

Bibliographic description:
BAUMGART, Jessica. Image Archiving [on line]. SLA News division, 3th march 2003. Available on: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/conferences/sla1996/ce.htm

Dublin Core:
Title : Image Archiving
Creator : Jessica Baumgart
Subject : Image / image archiving
Description : Conference by Rande Anmuth Simson on June 9, 1996 about Practical applications of digital news libraries.
Publisher : SLA News division
Date : 2003-03-23
Type : Conference
Format : HTML
Identifier : http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/conferences/sla1996/ce.htm
Source : http://www.ibiblio.org/
Language : En
Relation : http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/conferences/sla1996/index.htm
Coverage : USA
Rights : Jessica Baumgart

Extract

"In our most recent release of the AP archive we have made some major changes. One was to add the Personal Library Software database which brings full text searching capability as well as relevance ranking on hits, fuzzy term searching and related term searching. PLS also provides us with links to other PLS text databases. We feel PLS has an easier to use and faster search engine than the relational database that Informix provided the archive.

Another development was to make the Archive a Web server. This enables us to use Netscape as client software to compliment the Picture desk software which is still available. Netscape is truly cross-platform and can be used on Macs, PCs, Sun or IBM unix clients via Intranet and Internet.. We chose to use an HTML browser because of the programming possibilities with Java Script and its easy to use interface. Netscape provides the AP Preserver archive with yet another familiar interface which requires minimal training for the newspaper staffs to use.

We have consolidated hardware choices for our system to the latest, fastest and less expensive RS6000 PowerPC cpus, which resulted in a price reduction for the archive.

A most exciting development is a cooperation between AP and DataTimes to link the Preserver with EyeQPublisher, a text archive. This combination will allow users to search text, graphics and images from a single Netscape client. Rather than re-invent the wheel AP decided to rely on a text vendor to handle the text end of the archive. Oklahoma City will be our beta site for the combined text and image archives. I'm sure Carol Campbell will be happy to keep you all informed of developments on that end.

One of our Preserver sites, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, developed a photo assignment tracking database which compliments the Preserver. Assignment information is parsed into the appropriate fields when the image enters the archive, saving some of the indexing work. The AP and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune have decided to make this assignment module available to other newspapers with Preservers and those without as well.

Our future plans for the archive include integration with the AP server picture desk and true support for multimedia. We are watching developments with Digital Video Disk as an optional storage media."