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The Big Picture: Selection and Design Issues for Image Information Systems

Lunin, Lois F.

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Title
The Big Picture: Selection and Design Issues for Image Information Systems
Author(s)
Lunin, Lois F.
Issue Date
1997
Keyword(s)
  • Digital Libraries
  • electronic information resources
  • digital images
  • image access
  • image retrieval
  • image information systems
Abstract
A digital image is just one visible part of an image information system. What takes place behind the screen in order to display that image is the focus of this discussion. Many factors influence the planning and design of an image information system including its purpose, types of images, users and use, desired functions and features, and equipment and software. Also to be considered are file conversion and preparations in case of disaster as well as many social and ethical issues in the use of the system. Relatively new techniques for access and retrieval by image content are being explored with some systems now available. While these new mathematically oriented computer-based systems might, in time, help to alleviate some costly human processing, text documentation will still be necessary to identify the image and to describe such elements as the historical context or the social environment in which the image was created
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Digital Image Access & Retrieval [papers presented at the 1996 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, March 24-26, 1996 Urbana-Champaign]
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Owning Collections

1996: Digital Image Access & Retrieval PRIMARY
33th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1996). Edited by P. Bryan Heidorn and Beth Sandore.