Re: Scholar's web sites

From: Bruce Lane (blane@CALVIN.STEMNET.NF.CA)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 03:59:45 CDT

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    Date:         Wed, 9 Aug 2000 06:59:45 -0200
    From: Bruce Lane <mailto:blane@CALVIN.STEMNET.NF.CA>
    Subject:      Re: Scholar's web sites
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    <pre> I had a look at your web site. (Planetarium). As you stated, it is simple. The photos are good.

    You asked about a different way of presenting the images. I can direct you to my photography sites where you can see 2 different ways to present.

    http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~blane http://www.lanephotography.com ..... go to Photography, the galleries ... chose one of the underlined ones.

    I would also like feedback if anyone has time.

    At 09:51 PM 8/8/2000 -0400, you wrote:
    >At 03:29 PM 8/7/00 -0700, Charles Rhyne wrote:
    >
    >>This message is addressed especially to college and university faculty,
    >>but I hope will be of interest to other IMAGELIB readers also.
    >>
    >>Most of the web is a black hole. This has persuaded many professionals to
    >>keep it at arms length, using it for temporary messages on list-serves and
    >>to access source material posted by research institutes, and major
    >>universities, but shunning the web as an avenue for their own professional
    >>publication. Most of us recognize the advantage of the web in making
    >>material available quickly and to a large, diverse international
    >>audience. But the web also has certain long term advantages for
    >>professional disciplines.
    >
    >Hats off to Charles Rhyne who has taken a great mass of material, presented
    >it in a clear manner with an intuitive structure. Always professional in
    >design and in photographic quality, Charles' images of the Getty Center
    >should serve as a model for similar projects. To Charles' credit he has
    >not encumbered his project with overly sophisticated and frivolous
    >programming devices, but lets the subject speak for itself.
    >
    >In admiration of Charles' Getty Center project, but with considerably less
    >elegance (and fewer resources), I have been experimenting with creating art
    >historically significant pages of images with short narrative and/or
    >critical texts -- all presented with nothing but simple html. (Each
    >filename preserves the date and time of the original photograph.)
    >
    >Imagelib readers are invited to take a look and, hopefully, will offer
    >suggestions for clearer or more useful presentations. Only simple,
    >individually affordable technology is used on the pages below. Images come
    >from a CoolPix900 (1280x960) camera that produces, at best, slightly
    >compressed jpegs. I have used several variations in these pages, some big
    >images are minimally compressed and some are highly compressed. Depending
    >upon the image, some highly compressed versions seem quite passable and
    >other's don't. It would be useful to hear the opinion of the imagelib group
    >on this as well.
    >
    >The three monuments I cover are as follows:
    >
    >The New Rose Center Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History
    >(80 images, largest being 640x480)
    >http://www.studiolo.org/AMNH-Planetarium/index.htm
    >
    >Carpeaux's "Ugolino and his sons," MMA (9 images, largest 1280x960,
    >minimally compressed) Taken under ambient conditions.
    >http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm
    >
    >
    >Presidential Circle Office Building, Hollywood, Florida (28 images, largest
    >1280x960, highly compressed)
    >http://www.studiolo.org/Hywd-PresCircle/PresCircle.htm
    >
    >Thanks in advance for your comments. Also interested in the utility of the
    >format as a repository of images useful for teaching. (Ignore the fact that
    >there is no database retrieval system.)
    >
    >Thanks, in advance, to all.
    >
    >Robt Baron.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >===========================
    >Robert A. Baron
    >mailto:mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com
    >http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/
    >
    >
    Bye for now.

    ________________________________ Bruce Lane

    http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~blane
    ________________________________ You are a sum total of your experiences.

    </pre>



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