RE: Portals of image collections

Hello,

I've been lurking on the list for a while and find some of the messages point me to some interesting places so thanks.

The original message about portals to image collections was posted a couple of weeks ago but I'm afraid I've only just got to it. 

You might like to look at the SCULPTEUR project (http://www.sculpteurweb.org/) which will provide combined content-based, concept-based and metadata searches over images collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Gallery in London, C2RMF, the Uffizi and the Museum of Cherbourg.

I had better declare an interest here as I am one of the research engineers working on the project.

SCULPTEUR is only a year into its three year funding and as yet there is no publicly available system. However SCULPTEUR builds on the work done in the ARTISTE project and a dissemination system is still available from that project. The ARTISTE system allowed users to search over four images collections from different galleries. I think the final numbers were 170,000 images and 5 million items of metadata. The dissemination system at http://artiste.it-innovation.soton.ac.uk/ contains only 1000 images from the V&A collection but your can use the full search interface which allows the combination of content based and metadata queries. There are also a couple of reports on the use of RDF in the project and other topics which you can read via the Documentation link on http://www.it-innovation.soton.ac.uk/artiste/ 

I'd be happy to provide more information if anyone is interested.

Regards,

Alison

Alison Stevenson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Butler, Mark [mailto:Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
> Sent: 02 September 2003 17:36
> To: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
> Subject: Portals of image collections
> 
> 
> 
> Hi team,
> 
> Some people I'm sure will be familiar with this already, but 
> I think it's
> quite interesting to look at some of the existing image collections
> available on the web and the type of search interface they offer - see
> below:
> 
> I'd be very interested if anyone is aware of a paper that compares and
> contrasts search interfaces using some of these real world 
> collections as
> examples?
> 
> SPIRO 
> http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro/
> 
> Internet Public Library 
> http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum20.00.00/
> 
> American Landscape and Architectural Design 
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
> 
> Artcylopedia 
> http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
> 
> National Library of Medicine
> http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/gw_40_3/chameleon
> 
> Perseus Art and Archaeology 
> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/art&arch.html
> 
> Smithsonian American Art Collection
> http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/browse.html
> 
> University of Michigan Art Browser
> http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/demoarea/htdocs/index.html
> 
> Berger Foundation World Art Collection
> http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/
> 
> AMICO
> http://www.amico.org/
> 
> Web Gallery of Art
> http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/index1.html
> 
> ADAM Art Design, Architecture and Media
> http://adam.ac.uk/sindex.html
> 
> Google Image Search
> http://images.google.com/
> 
> Flamenco Prototype Search Interface
> http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html 
> (although this seems to be down, so SeaMark uses an interface 
> that is very
> similar
> http://www.siderean.com/medidemo.jsp)
> 
> Dr Mark H. Butler
> Research Scientist                HP Labs Bristol
> mark-h_butler@hp.com
> Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 16 September 2003 10:04:10 UTC