Message-Id: <mailto:199505090010.TAA28791@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 13:49:39 EST From: mailto:cshockle@MAIL.LMI.ORG> Subject: Re: After you have the digital image... To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Kevin has brought up some very interesting issues --particularly in my
case the area expressed in question 3 -- that always concern me as a
consultant who often finds herself between client and vendor. My
background as a librarian (which trains one to classify, categorize,
and organize knowledge) has me often dealing with an attitude of "once
we image something, the problem of storage and retrieval goes away."
What folks often don't realize is that committing the image (graphic,
full text, etc.) to any electronic media requires that you leave some
consistent "trail" behind -- whether it is a catalog, a database of
records, or something -- that will permit you to construct meaningful
queries of your stored images later. Can I drag out that old saying
once again -- garbage in, garbage out??
Cynthia Shockley
IR-IS, Inc.
Alexandria, VA 22310
703-922-4050
mailto:cshockle@lmi.org
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Subject: After you have the digital image...
Author: IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> at INTERNET2
Date: 5/8/95 1:39 PM
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
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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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