Thursday 8 February 2007

Museum photo collections

Bibliographic description
CORBAL, Marie. Museum photo collections [on line]. IUT Michel de Montaigne, 2006. Available on: http://www.iut.u-bordeaux3.fr/doc/sitos2006/MuseumPhotography/Welcome.htm

Dublin Core
Title : Museum photo collections
Creator : Marie Corbal
Subject : Documentary processing / Museum photograph
Description : This site present a collection of links on the material and intellectual processing of museum photographs. There are some definitions.
Publisher : IUT Michel de Montaigne
Date : 2006
Type : Web site
Format : HTML
Identifier : http://www.iut.u-bordeaux3.fr/doc/sitos2006/MuseumPhotography/Welcome.htm
Source : http://www.iut.u-bordeaux3.fr/site/jsp/site/Portal.jsp
Language : Fr
Relation : http://www.iut.u-bordeaux3.fr/doc/sitos2006.htm
Coverage : France
Rights : IUT Michel de Montaigne

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"DOCUMENTARY PROCESSING OF PHOTOGRAPHY


MATERIAL PROCESSING

Stocktaking
The stocktaking relies on international standard bibliographic description (ISBD) publicated by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

Recording
The documentary activity is written on a specific project which enables it to record. There are compulsory information such as the number of recordings, the date of the shot, the copyright, the name of photographer, the support, the format, the number of the shot and the legend with the localization.

Watermarking
It's an ink or a computing plug which underlines compulsory datas such as the copyright, the address of the institution, the author, a brief legend, and the number of the negative.


INTELLECTUAL PROCESSING

Legend
The legend can either be a piece of information, a commentary or a specific annotation. It is always in relation to the photography itself. It mentions the place, the date of the shot and the subject of the photography. In short it enables the researcher to exploit and to organize the collection.

Indexing
It is a device which enables to condense the information available on the photograph will were help of specific vocabulary such as iconographic thesaurus, free indexing, indexing language and classifying language. It enables to choose a precise word corresponding to the needs of the service. There is a link between the photography and the word choosen. For example, there is system of indexing such as ICONCLASS, GARNIER, RAMEAU and ICONOS. They are made for description of the photography."

Sunday 4 February 2007

Tribune company photo archiving task force : keys words (enhancement terms), and photo type words for digital photo archives

Bibliographic description
SLA NEWS DIVISION. Tribune company photo archiving task force : keys words (enhancement terms), and photo type words for digital photo archives, usage guidelines and alternatives [on line]. SLA News division, July 1995. Available on: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/conferences/sla1998/tribusage.html

Dublin Core
Title : Tribune company photo archiving task force : keys words (enhancement terms), and photo type words fer digital photo archives, usage guidelines and alternatives
Creator : SLA News division
Subject : Photography / Indexing / Keywords / Index terms / Digital photograph
Description : It's a keywords list for indexing press photos
Publisher : ibiblio.org
Date : 1995-07
Type : Guide
Format : HTML
Identifier : http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/conferences/sla1998/tribusage.html
Source : ibiblio.org
Language : En
Relation : 1998 SLA News Division Preliminary Program
Coverage : USA
Rights : No

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"ABUSE
ABORTION
ACCIDENT
ADVERTISING
AGRICULTURE - see also GARDEN, FARM, RANCH.
AIDS - the disease, not implements that assist. Use with DISEASE.
not air force; use MILITARY.
AIR
AIRCRAFT - use for helicopters, commercial airliners, bombers, spy planes, and inflatable transportation vehicles, such as weather balloons, the Goodyear blimp, etc. See also SATELLITE, SPACECRAFT.
ALCOHOL - see also BEVERAGE, WINE.
not alien; use IMMIGRANT, MIGRANT, REFUGEE, TRAVEL.
not amusement park; use ATTRACTION.
ANATOMY - see also BODY, NUDITY.
ANIMAL
ANNIVERSARY
ANTIQUE
APARTMENT
APPLIANCE - see also EQUIPMENT.
ARCHAEOLOGY
not archery; use ** in supplemental category field.
not archive; use LIBRARY or MUSEUM.
ARCHITECTURE
not army; use MILITARY.
not arms or armament; use WEAPON.
not arms control; use WEAPON and CONTROL.
ARREST
ART - a photo of a painting, collage, etc.; see also SCULPTURE.
ASSASSINATION
ASTRONAUT
ASTRONOMY - includes asteroids, comets, galaxies, planets (except earth), stars, and other celestial objects. See also ECLIPSE, MOON, SUN.
ATHLETE - use to distinguish between persons with same or similar name.
ATTRACTION - A place or event to which a tourist might want to go.
AUCTION
AUDIO - use with EQUIPMENT for audio equipment.
AUTO
AUTUMN
AVALANCHE
AWARD - includes medal, trophy, certificate, honorary degree, national honor.

BABY - includes last trimester of pregnancy through age 2; Age 3 to teens use CHILD; then TEENAGER or JUVENILE, as appropriate.
not ballet; use DANCE.
BALLOON - toy; use AIRCRAFT for inflatable air transportation vehicles and weather balloons.
not band; use MUSIC and GROUP.
BANK - includes depository, S&L, credit union, etc.
BAR - see also RESTAURANT..."

Image classification for content-based indexing

Bibliographic description
VAILAYA, Aditya; FIGUEIREDO, Mario A . T; JAIN, Anil K; ZHANG, Hong-Jiang. Image classification for content-based indexing [on line]. IEEE EXPLORE, january 2001. Available on: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/correct/686126

Dublin Core
Title : Image classification for content-based indexing
Creator : Aditya Vailaya, Mario A. T. Figueiredo, Anil K. Jain, Hong-Jiang Zhang
Subject : Image classification / Content-based / Indexing
Description : "Grouping images into (semantically) meaningful categories using low-level visual features is a challenging and important problem in content-based image retrieval."
Publisher : IEEE EXPLORE
Date : 2001-01
Type : article
Format : HTML
Identifier : http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/correct/686126
Source : http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
Language : En
Relation : http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/nrelated/1894793/686126
Coverage : USA
Rights : Copyright 2001 IEEE

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"Grouping images into (semantically) meaningful categories using low-level visual features is a challenging and important problem in content-based image retrieval. Using binary Bayesian classifiers, we attempt to capture high-level concepts from low-level image features under the constraint that the test image does belong to one of the classes. Specifically, we consider the hierarchical classification of vacation images; at the highest level, images are classified as indoor or outdoor; outdoor images are further classified as city or landscape; finally, a subset of landscape images is classified into sunset, forest, and mountain classes. We demonstrate that a small vector quantizer (whose optimal size is selected using a modified MDL criterion) can be used to model the class-conditional densities of the features, required by the Bayesian methodology. The classifiers have been designed and evaluated on a database of 6931 vacation photographs. Our system achieved a classification accuracy of 90.5% for indoor/outdoor, 95.3% for city/landscape, 96.6% for sunset/forest and mountain, and 96% for forest/mountain classification problems. We further develop a learning method to incrementally train the classifiers as additional data become available. We also show preliminary results for feature reduction using clustering techniques. Our goal is to combine multiple two-class classifiers into a single hierarchical classifier."

Thursday 1 February 2007

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

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"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."

Text and Photo : database enhancement terms

Bibliographic description:
WILLEN BROWN, Stéphanie. Text and Photo : database enhancement terms [on line]. Special Libraries Association News Division, 1st september 2001. Available on: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/archiving/terms/index.htm

Dublin Core:

Title : Text and Photo : database enhancement terms
Creator : Stephanie Willen Brown
Subject : enhancement terms / indexation / newspaper
Description : Links to database enhancement terms used in newspaper libraries across the United States.
Publisher : www.ibiblio.fr
Date : 2001-09-04 (last updated)
Type : Text
Format : HTML
Identifier : http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/archiving/terms/index.htm
Source : http://www.ibiblio.org
Language : En
Relation : -
Coverage : USA
Rights : Amy Disch


Extract

"These pages provide links to database enhancement terms used in newspaper libraries across the United States.
Newspaper librarians use enhancement terms to assist in the full-text retrieval of news articles and photos from large databases.
Enhancement terms are also known as keywords or subjects.
Chicago Tribune
Tribune Company Photo Archiving Task Force
Detroit Free Press
The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
Sacramento Bee
St. Petersburg Times
Spokane Spokesman-Review 
Springfield (MA) Union-News "