Message-Id: <mailto:199407181416.JAA14426@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 10:09:55 EST From: Paul Gherman <mailto:ghermanp@KENYON.EDU> Subject: Re: Image Vision To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
JOhn,You mention those with " great visual memories" who help mediate between the user and the photo or image archive. Librarians have been doing the same thing with books for years. Expert systems which replicate either process (bibliographic or image based) are needed. Card catalogs have given us pretty good access to print collections, but my sense is that access to image collections is still done primarily via browsing the actual images once the user gets to the general area that he or she needs. When we go digital with large image databases, it will be very difficult to similate browsing. Certain images will be easier such as those of art. I suspect we will need to develop sub-catagories of images ie, medical, art, chemical, etc. Within each of these broad catagories, the specialists in that area will need to develop access systems. Users from outside that specific area will need special guidance. Bibliographic access works across disciplines fairly well, but access to images will not work in the same way.
>From an earlier post, it sound like Kodak is doing some good research in this
area. We need more of this type of work.Paul