Hi Trudy & Amalyah, all,
I've been subscribed to Trudy's DIG-Update for a long time now, and
I've always been able to at least glean one or two pieces of
information that were really helpful for a particular quest I was on
- that's a lot more than I can say about a lot of other newsletters I
subscribe to :-). It's an excellent resource, and I've also exerpted
and posted from the newsletter to the list a couple of times.
In short: I'd be happy to have the information on the e-mail list if
it is ok with MCN policy to subscribe the entire list to newsletters.
(Since we don't have the separate e-mail lists for SIGs anymore, it's
really a bigger question than just Digital Imaging.) However, I would
understand if the membership & board didn't want to go that route -
if we add one newsletter, what reason could we give not to subscribe
to dozens of others if we get approached, and at that point, the load
may become unmanageable.
Another possible solution would be to have a section on e-Spectra
where we could give information about newsletters / e-mail lists we
find worthwhile, and get DIG-Update more exposure that way.
Any more ideas on this question?
Cheers,
Guenter
Amalyah -
I would be delighted to include mcn-l on my DIG-Update subscriber list
if people won't think I am spamming.
Are there any objections?
Trudy:
Just an idea. I think the Digital Imaging SIG of MCN should be a
subscriber -- then this would get posted on mcn-l -- right?
You're a member, if I'm not mistaken? Would you want to arrange this?
amalyah keshet
head of image resources & copyright management
the israel museum, jerusalem <http://www.imj.org.il>www.imj.org.il
board of directors, museum computer network <http://www.mcn.edu>www.mcn.edu
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From: <mailto:[email protected]>Trudy Levy
To: <mailto:Digital Imaging Guide Update 4:;>Digital Imaging Guide Update 4:;
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:00 PM
Subject: DIG-Update
DIG Updates
March 4, 2002
Vol 4 Issue 3
Welcome New Subscribers! DIG Update is a summation of new
information to be found at <http://www.dig-mar.com>DIG-Mar.com, the
Digital Imaging Guide which focuses on current news and issues of
interest to those creating, managing or using digital images. For
those who prefer a hard copy to read at your convenience, this
newsletter has been formatted for printing.
PRODUCT NEWS
Kodak Twirling in the Breeze
Philips has introduced a combined CD photo viewer and
MP3/CD-player, the Photo eXpanium. You not only can play music, but
also plug it in to a TV set in order to view photographs from a CD.
Anyone remember Kodak's Photo CD player?
Speaking of the Photo CD
There has been another tolling of its bell. Apple seems to have
decided it has gone the way of the floppy. Its new iPhoto that
comes with the OS X does not read the PCD file format.
And Kodak no longer is selling their famous gold backed CD-Rom that
the photoCD made famous. You can still get almost the same quality
of archival CD from Mitsui, the only other manufacturer that
offers a disk with Phthalocyanine dye and a gold reflective layer.
And now Kodak will go this way - Wireless
They will form a new company based on patented wireless
technologies from its research and development labs called
Appairent Technologies. Appairent will use Kodak's intellectual
property to enable current and future wireless products to work
more efficiently, and develop technology for the wireless
transmission of high quality video, still images and data. No need
for any storage devices maybe?
Speaking of twirling
Virage http://www.virage.com today announced a new enterprise
application for rich media training and e-learning. VS LearningĀ
enables companies to create, manage, publish and view on-demand
training courses and presentations containing video and other rich
media information. The solution is available from Virage both as a
licensed software product and as a hosted service. In the past
Virage has developed good video and rich media management software
and was one of the leaders in image recognition. Companies are
certainly staying nimble these days.
>
New digital capture technology now out in a camera
Remember us talking about the Foveon chip a while back? It is the
one that can capture all RGB colors at each pixel. SIGMA
Corporation of Japan has just introduced their interchangeable lens
digital SLR camera SD9 that is the first to incorporate it.
(http://www.sigma-photo.com/Html/news/news_sd9_fs.htm) It was to be
introduced at the Photo Marketing Association convention where the
Digital Photography Review
(http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02022503sigmasd9shots.asp.)
seems to have been one of the few who got to check it out and even
take its picture at the PMA.
The FOVEON(r) X3TM image sensor has three layers of photo
detectors. The layers are embedded in silicon to take advantage of
the fact that red, green and blue light penetrate silicon to
different depths. Silicon absorbs different colors of light at
different depths, so one layer records red, another layer records
green and the other layer records blue. This means that for every
pixel on a FOVEON(r) X3TM image sensor, there's actually a stack of
three photo detectors, forming the first and only full-color
capture system.
Adobe almost There with X
Adobe recently announced that Photoshop 7.0, which is compatible
with X and XP, will be released in the second quarter of 2002.
This will bring their complete professional design package in line
with the new platforms. The new Photoshop also of course has other
bells and whistles including, better file management, something
called the healing brush and a pattern maker. More when reality
actually hits.
From a Reader -
The most reliable type of program for protecting images that I've
used is Alchemy Mind Gif Construction Set. It has an Image Matrix
that cuts the image up into 96x96 pixel images and creates the web
code to assemble the image, so if you look in your cache you find a
heap of little pieces, or if you right click and save, you'll only
save one of the pieces. Some other neat tools there too.
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gcsdemo.html
HEARD IN THE ALLEY
Want to play Samuel Johnson?
Wikipedia, a collaborative project to produce a complete
encyclopedia from scratch, is now celebrating its first
anniversary. With few exceptions, anyone can edit any
article--copyedit, expand an article, write a little, write a lot.
http://www.wikipedia.com/
Licenses, Standards and Copyrights!
WIPO - A treaty that brings world copyright law into the digital
age by applying it to the Internet will take effect March 6, 2002.
Golan v. Ashcroft:
Summation: The Bono law extended copyrights for certain groups,
other groups are fighting this extension. In this second
challenge, the government is arguing for even broader terms. The
government now claims that Congress has the power not only to
extend existing copyrights, but also to "restore" the copyright of
work that has entered the public domain.
Read the government brief and Golan's reply>
<http://openlaw.org/golanvashcroft/>
Federal appeals court ruled that Ditto.com violated a professional
photographer's copyright by displaying full-sized images of his
work through "inline linking". This is not so much a copyright or
fair use issue, but one of audacity. Inline linking means you
displayed an image that is sitting on another's site as though it
is part of your site. You not only are using the image without
recompense, you are also stealing another's server's bandwidth,
using his server as remote storage without recompense and in
general is wrong..........
Money money ......
The Rockefeller Foundation has made a $500,000 grant to the
National Humanities Center .......
The World Bank launched the Development Gateway Foundation -- an
operating trust that will focus on ICT and the digital divide.
.............
IMLS Calls for National Leadership Grant Applications
..........
Of the specific priorities for 2002 of great interest to you might be:
Digital collaborations to bring together related collections
Enhancing interoperability of library and museum collections
>
COMMENTARY -
The Latest Solutions
On the road to the Universal Library - at Oxford
What do you do if you have a decentralized library system with over
100 collections that together probably represent the largest
assemblage of original material anywhere?
If you are Oxford University, you set yourself the ambitious goal
of creating a Digital Library that can provide researchers from
their home locations with centralized easy access to these
collections. This is not just a matter of creating a digital
catalog of what is contained in the various collections, but
actually providing digital images of a quality that will satisfy
most of a researcher's needs.
Find out how they are doing it in our latest Solutions
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