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Online Resources and Software List
Edited by Susan Jane Williams. (Please send additions and corrections to: susanjane_williams@hotmail.com)
A Sampling of Visual Resources Departments and Digital Projects
Art Images for College Teaching
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/
San Jose State University Digital Art
http://gallery.sjsu.edu/
Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange
http://www.sah.org/imagex.html
Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online (SPIRO)
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro/about.html
Library of University of California Images (LUCI)
http://vrc.ucr.edu/luci/luci.html
UCAI (Union Catalog of Art Images) Project
http://gort.ucsd.edu/ucai/index.html
University of Michigan Image Source
http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx
General Comprehensive Sites
CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network)
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html
AHDS (formerly VADS – Visual Arts Data Service – UK)
http://ahds.ac.uk/
HEDS (Higher Education Digitisation Service—UK)
http://heds.herts.ac.uk/
Data Standards and Metadata Issues
Baca, Murtha, ed. Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. Los Angeles: The Getty Information Institute, 1998.
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/
A metadata “crosswalk”
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.html
Lanzi, Elisa. Introduction to Vocabularies: Enhancing Access to Cultural Heritage Information. Los Angeles: The Getty Information Institute, 1998.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/introvocabs/
Baca, Murtha, and Patricia Harpring, Guest Editors. “Art Information Task Force: Categories for the Descriptions of Works of Art.” Visual Resources Special Issue 11, no.3-4 (1996): 41-429.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/
Rettig, Patricia J., "Administrative metadata for digital images: a real world application of
the NISO draft standard." Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services Issue 26, no.2 (2002): 173-179. (See below for the draft standard URL).
The Working Group on Preservation Metadata, an initiative jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects, available on the OCLC Web site at http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/pm_framework.pdf
Cataloguing Cultural Objects (draft) (Guidelines for applying VRA Core)
http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html
Standards and Protocols
VRA Core 3.0
http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore3/
Dublin Core
http://dublincore.org/
CDWA
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/cdwa/
OAI Protocol
http://www.openarchives.org/
The Data Dictionary for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
(NISO Z39.87/AIIM 20), released as a Draft Standard for trial
use:
http://www.niso.org/standards/dsftu.html
Copyright and Licensing (US)
Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections (published by the VRA Committee on Intellectual Property Rights)
http://www.vraweb.org/copyright/guidelines2.html
Sundt, Christine L. “Copyright and Art Issues.” Web site Last updated May 22, 2003
This site compiles valuable web resources on copyright and the visual arts, including all the current information from the NINCH Town Meetings through 2003.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/
Liblicense: A site to provide tools and education about licensing electronic products.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml
Best Practices/Imaging
Digital Library Federation and Research Libraries Group. Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Available on the web:
http://www.rlg.org/visguides/
Frey, Franziska. “Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards.” RLG DigiNews 1, no.3 (Dec. 15 1997)
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com
Kenney, Anne R., and Oya Y. Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html
Besser, Howard. Introduction to Imaging. Los Angeles: The Getty Information Institute. Revised Edition, 2003.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introimages/
Ongoing Publications
D-Lib Magazine (July/August 2002 issue)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july02/07contents.html
RLG DigiNews
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
Currently Available Image Management and/or Delivery Softwares
For additional products and a review, see the CHIN site, Collections Management
Software Review (mainly museum management softwares)
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Collections_Management/Software_Review/index.html
also this DAMs list from University of Michigan:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/dams/dams_technology_providers
PowerPoint
http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/
EmbARK Cataloger (recommended as replacement for ImageAXS, from the same parent company)
http://gallerysystems.com
The Museum System
http://gallerysystems.com
Portfolio
http://www.extensis.com
iView MediaPro
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/
Re:discovery
http://www.rediscov.com/
Willoughby MultiMimsy
http://www.willo.com/
CONTENTdm (first developed at University of Washington, now has a distributor)
http://contentdm.com/
Madison DID (MDID)
http://cit.jmu.edu/mdidinfo/
E-Media Library, developed at Auburn University and distributed commercially
http://www.emedialibrary.com/
University of Michigan (internally developed system)
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/
The University of Virginia (internally developed system)
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/images.html
Almagest (internally developed system, Princeton)
http://etcweb.princeton.edu/almagest2/
Insight from Luna Imaging
http://www.lunaimaging.com
IBM Content Manager
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/cm/cmgr/
MediaRich, from Equilibrium (a digital assets management system geared to commercial use)
http://www.equilibrium.com/
Documentum Digital Asset Manager
http://www.documentum.com/products/glossary/digital_asset_manager.htm
Open Source Solutions
Gallery: (a ‘mom and pop’ photo management web tool)
http://gallery.menalto.com/
Madison DID (MDID) Version 2
http://cit.jmu.edu/mdidinfo/news/news-20040226-01.asp
Library OPAC softwares (that have image modules)
Endeavor Voyager (ENCompass)
http://www.endinfosys.com/
Innovative Interfaces
http://www.iii.com/index.php
Aleph (Ex Libris DigiTool)
http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/digitool.htm
Additional programs that work with content, not necessarily image presentation, but distance learning/ course reserves
WebCT
http://www.webct.com/
Blackboard
http://www.blackboard.com/
Asymetrix Toolbook
http://www.asymetrix.com/en/products/
KnowledgeBase
http://www.knowledgebase.net
Docutek's ERes
http://www.docutek.com/
Database and Web Interface Tools
MySQL – An open source database that provides backend services for many major web sites. It runs on many platforms, including Linux and Windows, integrates nicely with web scripting languages like PHP and VBSCRIPT / ASP, and is robust enough to handle large databases.
http://www.mysql.com/
PHP – The PHP Group’s website introduces this freely available scripting language, which can be embedded into HTML, and suggests additional resources.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php
ASP – Microsoft’s default web scripting environment allows developers to embed commands in web pages using a variety of languages (most commonly VBScript).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/psdk/iisref/aspguide.htm
Image Processing Softwares
Photoshop from Adobe remains the standard general image manipulation software
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html
IRFANVIEW – Freeware image viewing and editing software that is often handier than high-end programs due to its browse-mode interface.
http://www.irfanview.com/
DeBabelizer – (an Equilibrium product) is a tool for batch image processing (creating multiple derivative images from master files, or converting format files en masse).
http://www.equilibrium.com/
CKRENAME – Commercial slide scanning speeds up the process, but often returns dozens of CD’s full of ambiguously named files like IMAGE0037. To assign a unique file name, a utility like this that supports wildcards and auto-increment names is helpful.
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000014848
MrSID, DJVu and Geospatial (GIS) solutions. LizardTech makes a variety of image compression and delivery schemes utilizing sub-regional extraction and other technologies.
http://www.lizardtech.com/
Zoomify – Same as above; some of the products use Flash for web display
http://www.zoomify.com/
