With advent of digital camera people have been taking more photos than ever [1], as a result our photo collections have been exploding in size. Retrieving the right photograph from these enormous collections comes out as an obvious problem. However it has turned out that people do not have the motivation to do the daunting task of tagging and indexing these huge photo collections [2, 3, 4]. As Fleck M points out [5] that people do not see the usefulness of annotating and indexing of the photographs when they are adding new images to the collection. The real need only surfaces when they already have a massive indexed photo collection and the task of annotating the whole collection is no longer appealing enough. There has been a lot of work done in the area of making it easier for the user to tag photographs, some systems make it easier by letting user a drag and drop names from a list. There is work on using speech input rather than typing the content information.
Apart from this there is a major body of work done towards making this content retrieval work automatic. There are some computer vision algorithms that can attempt to find what content of the pictures are and try to infer the occasion [6,TBD]. For example presence of a bride in a photo could infer that it’s a photo from a wedding. These methods are still unreliable and are very expensive problem to solve. GPS data has also been used to extrapolate context [7, 8], for example a photograph taken next to a tourist landmark could help labelling the photograph. If the four main values of structure of a photo are supposed to be what, who, location and emotion [Unpublished thesis!], it can be argued that these methods can at best give us what, who and location; they are incapa...
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PEOPLE: Who is in the picture? Investigate all aspects of the photograph. If no people are in the picture, use this space to research people who were involved in the events that took place in the location / time of your photograph.
The Library is experimenting with the use of Mosaic and the World Wide Web as a front end to provide initial access to materials in the Library's Reading Rooms in London. Mosaic was chosen as a powerful, simple-to-use interface suitable for users who may not be computer-literate. By use of off-line image preparation, server-side scripts performing on-the-fly image manipulation and caching of images, users are able to search quickly for detail in the images, while the hypertext features of the Web allow cross references to background material to be presented.
Globally, different art forms do not necessarily throw their definition in your face. It should be interpreted for subsequent comprehension. (Grundberg 1990: 3) Even though the extra information such as a caption and additional background info can be beneficial to the analysis of a photograph, it is not compulsory to the interpretation and consequent emotional response. (Butler 2009: 66) So, being more dependent on personal perspective, a photograph is widely open to different kinds of interpretation.
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Tweets, texts, and the virtual world are beginning to engulf human society one message at a time. For the past ten years, the estimated phone usage per day has become three to four hours. Those precious hours add up quickly, resulting in a total of one hundred and twelve hours per month spent staring at an animated screen. Children, teens, and even adults are beginning to use their cell phones more and more, and are putting themselves at a greater risk of developing social awkwardness, little persistence, and becoming known as digital natives; all these traits driven within your hand held partner.
The camera is simply a portable extension of our eyes that captures images we may otherwise never see, and freezes them into eternity for our scrutiny. If photographs provide any true knowledge, it is that of a visual stimulus, a superficial comprehension that barely scratches the surfaces. What would photographs be without captions? Merely anonymous pictures of anonymous things, anonymous places, and anonymous people. Photography all...
Automated is transform the materials or records into digital form. As the era of the technology present, the demanding of digital records is drastically increased. Automated records may present archivists their greatest challenge in identifying, selecting, and preserving records of enduring value. Since the introduction of the computer, archivists have been concerned about its impact on their profession's mission. Based on report by the National Archives of Canada on machine-readable data stated that "if one were to take the traditional archival approach of waiting for whatever recorded information came out of the system, then the archivist in the electronic age will undoubtedly die of information starvation."23 Over the past decade archivists have tried to redefine their role in the modern information age, 24 but many seem to have been merely paying lip service to society's major shift to an "information" era. At present one can count on one hand the number of major programs established to deal with automated records, and these are only located at some of the largest archival institutions - The National Archives of Canada, the U.S. National Archives, and the New York, Utah, and Kentucky state archives. Contrast this with the facts: computers have been used for three decades, personal computers have become an ubiquitous feature of society in just the past decade, and a major portion of all information presently being created is going into automated systems of some variety. Nevertheless, there is overwhelming evidence that archivists are not effectively appraising such information nor using the helpful findings of previous research. 25 Current research is, however, both innovative and promising. Archivists have made substantial pro...
... wealthy enough to hire a professional photographer could record the many precious moments in their life. People would take pictures of events and places that they've been to, as well as portraits of their friends, family and loved ones. This lead to families of all stripes keeping photo albums in their homes to flip through and reminisce. Even before portable cameras came into vogue, photography changed the way people interact with each other. Young suitors would often attach photo portraits of themselves to their love letters, and soldiers going to war would often bring photos of their sweethearts back home. Not only that, but things such as photographs of famous celebrities became prized collectibles, with photo cards of famous people being traded around in a way not unlike the baseball cards of the 20th century. The next major innovation is digital photography.
Register, R. (2013). The importance of metadata for E-content. EContent Quarterly, 1(1), 30-44. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1467943727?accountid=10043
An electronic image of the Sistine Chapel ceiling will never accurately convey the awe-inspiring sight of Michelangelo’s work. Having a text or instant messaging exchange with another is no substitute for engaging in the lively art of conversation, and cell phones will never replace the responsibility of parenting. Texting, instant-messaging and the internet are useful tools if properly used, they are not a substitute for participation in life.
"Although fully searchable text could, in theory, be retrieved without much metadata in the future, it is hard to imagine how a complex or multimedia digital object that goes into storage of any kind could ever survive, let alone be discovered and used, if it were not accompanied by good metadata" (Abby Smith). Discuss Smith's assertion in the context of the contemporary information environment
loosening the spesific creativity in each picture. When people see the major mass of photos
Kodak is the world’s foremost imaging innovator. George Eastman put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers in 1888. In so doing, he made a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone. Since that time, the Eastman Kodak Company has led the way with an abundance of new products and processes to make photography simpler, more useful and more enjoyable. With sales of $13.3 billion in 2006, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. (Kodak, 2007)
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