CNI Session - Describing Image Files

J. Trant, Manager, Getty AHIP Imaging Initiative (mailto:jtrant@IO.ORG)
Wed, 23 Nov 1994 19:25:59 +0500 

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Date:         Wed, 23 Nov 1994 19:25:59 +0500
From: "J. Trant, Manager, Getty AHIP Imaging Initiative" <mailto:jtrant@IO.ORG>
Subject:      CNI Session - Describing Image Files
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The Getty AHIP Imaging Initiative is sponsoring a session at the upcoming
Coalition for Networked Information Meeting in Orlando, Florida, which will
focus on the need for a standard technical description of an image file.
The description is included below.


If you would like to help work out solutions to this problem, please join
us at this session. If you are unable to attend but are willing to be part
of a working group, please email me (mailto:jtrant@getty.edu) outlining your area
of interest. I'll follow up after the meeting with an outline of the plans
developed.


jennifer






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COALITION FOR NETWORKED INFORMATION
Fall Meeting
Orlando, Florida


Wednesday, November 30, 1994
10:00 am




DESCRIBING IMAGE FILES - THE NEED FOR A TECHNICAL STANDARD


ORGANIZERS:


Jennifer Trant    Manager Imaging Initiatiave,
                  Getty Art History Information  Program


Howard Besser     Visiting Associate Professor
                  School of Information and Library Studies
                  University of Michigan


DESCRIPTION:


Archives of digital images are being created around the world. Each of
these is shaped by its technical chracteristics, yet the technological
means by which images are created are rarely recorded. Scanning
technologies influence the result of the image capture process. The source
material scanned dictates how much information was available for
conversion. Colour correction alters the information presented by an image.
Compression algorythms may introduce artefacts. Each impinges on the
informational value of the visual content of a image file.


This session invites those who are concerned about the long-term viability
of digital image archives to come together and define a strategy for
identifying and describing the standard characteristics of an image file. A
working group will be formed to develop a draft for comment and a process
for review will be outlined.








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J. Trant
Manager, Imaging Initiative
Getty Art History Information Program
mailto:jtrant@getty.edu  phone: (310) 451-6381  fax: (310) 451-5570






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