Message-Id: <mailto:199505081439.JAA10702@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 07:30:08 PDT From: Kevin Donovan <mailto:kdonovan@SWCP.COM> Subject: After you have the digital image... To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I hope no one will mind if a vendor (with 12 years museum experience) starts a thread. About two months ago on the museum-l list, in the midst of a thread about imaging in museums, I posed the following three questions:1.) How are institutions a.)capturing, b.)managing and c.)delivering high resolution digital images?
2.) If institutions are not capturing high resolution images because end-user applications (multimedia, Internet, collections management, etc.) don't require them, is that short-sighted?
3.) And finally, how are institutions linking data records with the digital image(s) they create? (I ask this last question because it seems to me that digital images are worth little if they are not linked to catalog records).
Unfortunately, the conversation that followed on museum-l revolved around Internet applications, which is only one of many imaging applications (and generally a low resolution image application at that). I thought it would be useful to pose the same questions on Imagelib.
There has been a good deal of discussion on this list about hardware, but I would like to move the disussion to the subsequent steps of linking, storing (which touches on issues of compression and file size), managing and delivering the digital resources that are created.
I look forward to a healthy discussion. And I hope other vendors will weigh in as well. Thanks in advance to everyone who makes this such a useful list.
Kevin
------------------------------------- Kevin Donovan Director of Special Projects Luna Imaging Inc. 1315 Innes Place Venice, CA 90291 ph: 310.452.8370 fx: 310.452.8389 E-mail: Kevin Donovan<mailto:donovan@luna-img.com> or kdonovan@swcp.com 05/08/95 07:30:08
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