On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Debbie Campbell wrote:
> 1. We have a repository with more than one million links -
> PictureAustralia, which links to distributed images. It currently
> contains 1,078,129 metadata records, contributed by 38 distributed
> agencies.
Thanks. I suppose I had my head firmly fixed in "UK institutional
repository" mode when I wrote that email :-)
But surely you mean 'catalogue' rather than 'repository', if the images
themselves are distributed? :-)
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I presume that the cost/benefit analysis changes when cataloguing images
as opposed to text resources, since techniques for automatically
'indexing' images are less well developed than techniques for 'indexing'
text?
That said, I saw an interesting demo (by someone at Sheffield I think) in
a meeting the other day of an automated image browse system that works by
analysing the images in order to determine the degree of 'sameness'
between any two images, based on a number of different facets (colour,
etc.).
Andy
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