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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 09:04:45 -0400
From: Pamela Mason <[e-mail]>
Subject: Invitation to Evaluate Image Database

The following letter was mailed to potential evaluators from the land
grant and cooperative extension service community. In an effort to reach
others who might find the content of the database of interest, I am
posting this invitation to the two lists.  Apologies to those who
subscribe to both and will receive two invitations.
Cheers, Pamela
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|  Pamela Mason, Project Manager      |  National Agricultural Library  |
|  [e-mail]                 |  Information Systems Division   |
|  Phone: [phone]              |  10301 Baltimore Blvd.          |
|  Phone: [phone]              |  Beltsville, MD 20705-2351      |
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The National Agricultural Library (NAL), in cooperation with the
University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Sciences and
Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service, has produced a
horticultural database of nearly 2000 full-color images and their
descriptions.

Two different collections are represented: the first 26 volumes
of Curtis' Botanical Magazine (1787-1813) and a slide collection
of common landscaping plant pests and diseases from MSU.  The
Curtis collection includes not only the hand-colored botanical
prints, but images of the text descriptions for each plant, plus
the corrected index to the volumes.  The plant pests and diseases
collection includes the most commonly-seen problems as well as
selected images of beneficial insects to enable their
identification. We invite you to participate in the evaluation of
these two collections in both the online and CD-ROM versions
during the 6-month period from November, 1994 through April,1995.

The image database will reside on a World Wide Web server at the
University of Pittsburgh that will be accessed through a MOSAIC
client residing on the participants'computers (which can be PCs,
Macintoshes, X-terminals or workstations).  MOSAIC clients are
available for all these platforms.  The image files are being
stored in TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), but can be requested
in GIF (8-bit color) as well as JPEG (24-bit color).  Indeed,  evaluating
what color levels are preferred is one of the objectives.  A NAL-produced
CD-ROM with TIFF-only images, running under Windows 3.1 will also be
 part of the evaluation.

Beyond agreeing to respond to the evaluation questionnaire,
participants should have the following at a minimum (Note: users
with PCs need only have the one platform to evaluate both the
online and the CD-ROM version; users with Macintoshes or X-
terminals or workstations would also need to have a PC to
evaluate the CD-ROM version):

1)  A connection to the Internet (via server or modem)

2)  386-level PC (or higher) with VGA or Super VGA color
monitor (preferably Super VGA with 512K Video RAM; 640 x 480
pixels resolution, 256 colors). (For both the online version plus
the CD-ROM version evaluation.)
     or
Macintosh with 8 bit color monitor (for online version only)
     or
X-terminal device or workstation, with color monitor capable
of 640 x 480 pixels resolution, 256 colors (for online version
only)

3)  MOSAIC client appropriate to the platform (PC, Macintosh, X)

4)  Microsoft Windows 3.1 (for CD-ROM version evaluation)

5)  CD-ROM drive (for CD-ROM version evaluation)

6)  Imaging software (at a minimum, JPEG View (MOSAIC viewer) or
Windows Paintbrush, which is supplied as part of Windows 3.1, but
preferably other imaging software capable of handling other image
formats)

We would especially like to invite the participation of
organizations which have computer support for 24-bit color or
"true color", which requires 1 MB Video RAM and separate video
card.  This level of quality is important to our evaluation of
the uses made of the images by endusers requiring very high
resolution and color quality.

Users who may find these two collections of interest range from
art, horticultural and botanical libraries to homeowners,
teachers, master gardeners, horticultural specialists, and
Cooperative Extension Service agents.   We are especially
interested in having the materials evaluated by a wide variety of
participants who may wish to incorporate the images into their
work, to reproduce them for other purposes, or simply use the
images and the accompanying descriptions as teaching tools or for
pest identification.  Our intent is to evaluate the image
resolutions and color levels which are satisfactory for each
purpose.  In addition, we wish receive feedback on the indexing
of images using text descriptors, e.g., were the terms relevant
to the various user communities, and if not, what could be done to
improve access?

Please respond by October 31, 1994 to this invitation so we may
include you or your organization among the evaluators of this
exciting digital library.  The form which follows should be used
for the response.  Please return it as electronic mail.
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<H2><A NAME="ephoto">Electronic Photo and other Short Courses</A></H2>

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 10:41:26 -0500
From: "andrew davidhazy @ RIT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Electronic Photo and other Short Courses
To: Multiple recipients of list NPPA-L <[e-mail]>

If you are interested in seminars and workshops on subjects such as Digital
Imaging Principles, Photoshop, Quark XPress and Photostyler Workshops,
Electronic Photography, Printing for Non Printers and related topics you can
obtain a complete file of upcoming dates and costs of such seminars offered
by the Technical and Education Center of the Graphic Arts at the Rochester
Institute of Technology.

To receive this file by automatic reply send e-mail with   SEMINARS$txt   in
the SUBJECT: line of a message addressed to:  [e-mail]

You can also obtain loads of data on undergrad and grad photography programs, a
database of schools that offer photo instruction worldwide, FAQ photo files and
an e-mail address and phonebook for RIT photo faculty by saying INFO$txt in the
Subject: line instead of  seminars$txt.
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<H2><A NAME="liverpool">U Liverpool Image Database Project</A></H2>

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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 15:15:50 GMT
From: "J.W. White" <[e-mail]>
Sender: IMAGELIB <[e-mail]>
Subject: Image Database project

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The Liverpool University Image Database Group is constructing a
report (which will be available as a Gopher resouce) titled:

       "Image Database Systems for Unix Environments".

Although primarily interested in hardware and software (we hope to
cover both working and research systems), we wish to contact potential
and current users to enhance our understanding of the image database
requirement.  Although our brief is to cover the Unix environment - we
hope to look at anything that might be out there.

Our aim is to generate a "wish list" which might serve as a pointer for
research, as well as a "which guide" to what is currently available.
Consequently, we are not too concerned about what might be an "image
database" - we are interested in what the community thinks is one and
the facilities it does or should provide.

Given these aims; we seek users, developers of databases, and systems and
research people who are prepared to share with us their expertise. In
return we will ensure they get an early copy of the report.  If you can
help us, please respond to these questions.

1. do you wish to be registered to receive a copy of the report; if yes
  please provide your full Name and Postal Address.

2. how do you define an image database ?  Do you consider yourself an
  image database end-user or potential end-user, a database developer,
  or an image database systems person ?

3. what is your experience of image databases ? are you a regular user ?
  how would you rate your a) practical knowledge, b) knowledge of
  theoretical issues ?

4. what image database systems do you know of ? what hard/software
  requirements do they have ?  What are your opinions of them ?

5. who do you reckon are the experts in the field of Image Database ?

6. assuming no constraints - what would your ideal system provide by way
  of facilities ?  How would you expect to use it ?

7. what features would you expect to see in a minimal image database
  system ?

If you merely "reply" to this posting it should get to us.  If you can
include details of the newsgroup on which you found the posting we would
consider that a bonus. Alternatively, if you email us ([e-mail])
please include the word "posting" in the subject field of the header.

In anticipation - Many thanks for your help.

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If absolutely pressed OUR definition of "image database" would include:

       image, digital photograph, and picture archives, video clip databases,
       cad/cae/cal databases, fine art image libraries, art photographs,
       medical image libraries including thermal imaging pix etc,
       geographical information systems (gis) in their  widest sense -
       including remote sensor imagery, visualisation databases, digital
       imagery of manuscripts, animation libraries, etc.
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<H2><A NAME="graphfile">Graphics File Formats</A></H2>

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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 09:41:00 -0500
From: Kurt Foss <[e-mail]>
Subject: FYI/Graphics File Formats book

68.09 O'Reilly Graphics File Formats book
From: [e-mail] (Sara Winge)

We have just published this guide to nearly 100 graphics file formats: from
major, standardized formats, like GIF, TIFF, TGA, and BMP to newer or
specialized formats, like SGI YAODL, Rayshade, and Facesaver. If you are a
graphics programmer who needs to know the details of a format (whether it's
big- or little-endian, how many colors can be stored, and precisely what
data appears in each bit or pixel) or anyone else who needs to deal with
the low-level technical details of graphics files, this book is for you. It
is for programmers on any platform-- MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, UNIX, the
Macintosh, and others.