Re: image scanning / management software?

From: Eileen Mathias (mathias@ACNATSCI.ORG)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 15:57:25 CDT

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From: Eileen Mathias <mailto:mathias@ACNATSCI.ORG>
Subject:      Re: image scanning / management software?
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    <pre> Stephen:

    I have been looking into this recently, in regards to Administrative metadata (scanning equipment, who scanned, when, et
    .). The problem at the moment seems to be that an administrative metadata standard for images has not yet been finalize
    , so vendors are not yet making specific products for the kind of data that libraries and archives in particular will ne d to track. There is promising work in the area of metadata for images, most notably from NISO. They are working on a Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images", with a description at:

    http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_au.html

    There are other products available, but I have found them to be not as detailed as I would like, or not appropriate to l brary materials. For example, Cumulus by Canto is used effectively by graphic artists; the "File Info" function in Ado e PhotoShop tracks some metadata. EmbARK by Gallery Systems is pretty good for slide or photo libraries and art collect ons. If you want to be able to transfer your metadata to a standardized form once one is established, it seems best at his point in time to create a database using FileMaker Pro, Access, or SQL. I actually asked Peter Hirtle at Cornell a imilar question about 2 weeks ago, and he replied that, yes, most libraries are still creating their own databases at th s point.

    Check out the NISO site (above) as a guide to fields that should be incorporated into such a database, or:

    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/moa2/

    Berkeley developed a DTD for digital images which we used as a guide when we set up our database a few years ago. The M A2 DTD is being used in part as a guide for standards being developed now, so hopefully, when the international standard
     are finalized, we will have most of the required data.

    Eileen Mathias

    Eileen C. Mathias Information Services Librarian & Coordinator, Albert M Greenfield Digital
      Imaging Center for Collections Ewell Sale Stewart Library The Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-299-1140 215-299-1144 FAX mailto:mathias@acnatsci.org

    >>> mailto:daviss@COLUMBIA.EDU 05/16/02 03:15PM >>>
    Hi - Just checked the archives on this, but didn't see much recently:

    Is anyone using a commercial or shareware PC-based software package to help manage image capture & structural metadata for digitization projects? Or does everyone just grown their own using MS Access or Filemaker?

    I've just been looking at the Scanvue website and their Viewer & DB products seem to have a fair amount of useful functionality...

    Thanks for any advice here.

    /Stephen Davis

    ______________________________ Stephen Paul Davis Digital Library Program Columbia University Libraries

    email: mailto:daviss@columbia.edu phone: (212) 854-8584 fax: (212) 854-0089
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