pictorial or text images?

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Message-Id: <mailto:199408310426.XAA19787@library.wustl.edu>
Date:         Tue, 30 Aug 1994 18:13:28 -0700
From: Maryly Snow <mailto:slides@CED.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      pictorial or text images?
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>

>

> I've just joined this listserv so this question may have been

> already addressed, but Stephen Chapman's question ("Disposition

> of Materials" reminds me that those of us with PICTURE collections

> use the term "image" to mean "pictorial" and people with text

> data use the term "image" to mean "text snapshot" or something to

> that effect.

>

> Is Imagelib about text snapshots and digital text online, or about

> pictures online?  Or both?  The use of the term "image" for two

> very different things is confusing, and has been ever since the

> microfiche people started doing digital and calling their photoreproductions

> of text pages "images".  Do we need to adopt "pictorial image" and

> "text image" as more specific vocabulary?

>

> Maryly Snow

> UC Berkeley

> Architecture Slide and Photograph Library

>

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