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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Luna Imaging and Edinburgh University Library would like to invite you and your colleagues to attend a demonstration of Insight, the image handling system recently installed in Edinburgh University Library. The demonstration will take place in Edinburgh University Library on the 9th July. There will be two identical sessions that day, one running from 10 a.m to 12 a.m and one from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The sessions will take the format of presentations but we will offer some time for hands-on practise with the software for attendees. If you would like to attend this demonstration please email [log in to unmask] to book a place. Please indicate if you wish to attend a morning or afternoon session. This event is sponsored and supported by Sun Microsystems. Introduction to Insight Edinburgh University has recently begun using Luna Imaging's Insight software for delivering access to two digital image collections. These initial collections are 'Charting the Nation', a collection of c. 5000 early maps of Scotland, funded through RSLP, and created in collaboration with the Edinburgh University Geography Department, drawing on orginals from institutions throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK; and 'The Walter Scott Digital Archive', an initial collection of digital images of c. 500 paintings, drawings, and engravings produced during the 19th century to illustrate the works of Walter Scott, and housed in EUL's Corson Collection. Insight is a product that allows us to manage, access and use our image collections over the Internet. Users are able to search the database of descriptive metadata, created to international standards, and using controlled access points, as well as keyword searching and full Boolean searching. It also allows the user to make and save selections of images from simple point and click lists. Insight combines the retrieval and display of text information with an equally rich set of tools for viewing, comparing, and organizing images. Very high- quality images are delivered at impressive speeds across the internet, using MrSid image formats to make viewing and manipulation of images quick and easy. The image collections are made available though a web-browser for standard functionality, but also through a client which has added functionality, and most importantly for an educational organisation, a powerful presentation tool, which allows teachers and students to build, save, and edit sophisticated presentations, using images derived from a number of collections. Luna Imaging Inc. makes it easier than ever to build comprehensive digital image collections by offering state of the art image management software, Insight®, along with a variety of ways to quickly and easily build your collections. Collection managers can digitize their own image collections and incorporate them into Luna's Insight® software, share content with other institutions that use Insight, subscribe to digital image collections through a variety of Luna's content partners, or license digital images from the growing number of Insight-ready image collections now available. Insight's powerful cross collection search engine resolves any differences between metadata standards so collections can be viewed and searched as one cohesive body. Insight is quickly becoming the primary software platform for accessing high-resolution image collections on the Internet. Now there are two options for subscribing to large quantities of quality image content through Insight's high quality software interface. Cartography Associates will distribute The AMICO Library® in Insight® beginning Fall of 2002, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has adopted Luna's Insight software as the platform to distribute ArtSTOR, a new independent, not-for-profit organization that will make a large body of digital resources for the study of art, architecture and other fields in the humanities available for subscription. Morag Watson Systems Librarian Edinburgh University Library Email [log in to unmask] Tel 0131 650 3395 Fax 0131 650 3380