VINE: Volume 27 Issue 3
Table of contents
Digital images in libraries: an overview
Jonathan FurnerImage collections of various types are maintained by organisations of all sizes, in all sectors. The term ‘picture library’ is commonly used to refer to a commercial operation…
The LIB.R.I.S. project: from heritage conservation to user‐oriented concerns
Marie Després‐LonnetThree libraries in the North‐East of France are collaborating in the creation of an archive of digitised images that simultaneously preserves and extends access to the region's…
What's cooking at the NHM?
Malcolm BeasleyThe Natural History Museum's Department of Library and Information Services has been developing a pilot image database using iBase software. This personal assessment of progress…
Images for the tourists: the experiences of the British Tourist Authority and English Tourist Board in setting up a digital image collection
Ian BellThe British Tourist Authority and English Tourist Board are developing a unique library of digital images relating to tourism, digitised using Photo‐CD, stored in an…
Innovation in the Open University Library: the Interactive Open Learning Centre and Media Archive
Robert van der Zwan, Nicky WhitsedThe Interactive Open Learning Centre and Media Archive at the Open University Library is a collection of OU‐produced audio‐visual materials. The archive is being enhanced by the…
Divine offices and commonsense
Iain Beavan, Michael Arnott, Colin McLarenAberdeen University Library's digitisation programme has reached an advanced stage, with three projects all designed to deliver images (of a 300‐page medieval liturgical text, of…
The Centre for Retrospective Digitisation at Göttingen University Library
Norbert LossauIntent on creating a distributed national digital library, the German Research Foundation has funded Göttingen University Library's establishment of a Centre for Retrospective…
Digitisation of old documents in the National Library of the Czech Republic: a complex solution
Adolf KnollThe digitisation programme of the National Library of the Czech Republic focuses on the preservation of, and provision of access to, old manuscripts and other rare historical…
Image indexing in the Bodleian ballads project
Alexandra FranklinThe creation of a digital database of broadside ballads at the Bodleian Library presents the challenge of cataloguing and indexing a large collection of documents containing both…
Accessing the visual heritage: metadata construction at the Science & Society Picture Library
Angela MurphyThe Science & Society Picture Library — responsible for a very large archive of still images drawn from many different collections — is presently confronting the challenge of…
Distributed image services (working together)
John EyreWeb technology presents exciting opportunities for the curators of collections of digitised images, but collaboration is vital if this potential is to be realised. DMU's ELISE II…
ARTISAN : a prototype retrieval system for trade mark images
Margaret E. Graham, John P. EakinsBefore a trade mark can be registered at the UK Patent Office, registrars need to ensure it isn't confusingly similar to any of 300,000 existing marks in the Registry's database…