[MCN-L] IP SIG: (c)ollectanea blog - CIP Univ of Maryland
In case you have any time left afer reading Musematic.net : - Original Message - Greetings, Please join the Center for Intellectual Property in welcoming Carlos Ovalle to the (c)ollectanea Blog this month. Mr. Ovalle is a full time member of the technology staff and a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. Along with CIP scholar, Georgia Harper the monthly guest bloggers continue to bring thoughtful perspectives on up to the minute happenings in the copyright arena. Visit the (c)ollectanea blog today, tomorrow or take advantage of the RSS feed! http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2964 Fax: 240-582-2961 ofrancois at umuc.edu (C)ollectanea Blog: http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/
[MCN-L] Image Size (was Pan Zoom Server)
Matt's comment about image size leads me to wonder what members of the MCN community think is the biggest possible image that would not be worth stealing for financial gain. Here we have settled on 500 pixel images, but that was fairly arbitrary. Will Real Carnegie Museum of Art -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Morgan, Matt Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:55 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server Do we know that users like zooming? Or if certain particular groups of users like zooming? I often find zooming irritating. I would mostly rather have a single, somewhat larger full view of an image than to zoom in on just a piece of the image, even if the detail is not as good. Zooming takes more clicks drags, and then I end up with something where I can't really see the work. I just wonder sometimes if the effort we put into zoom is worthwhile. Should we just make the images bigger? I know that ours could be a lot bigger before it's possible to get any financial gain by stealing them. Thanks, Matt You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender.
[MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server
An alternative might be to use mapping software. Obviously this is only a half-reasonable idea if you already use something like ArcIMS, and it's probably not as good as a dedicated zoom server (not that I've come across these before).If you do already use, say, ArcIMS then you should be able to save yourself a new purchase and use your existing skills. This is something we've discussed but not tried out, I should say, but I'm pretty sure you could take any image and treat it as a map layer (you'd need to georeference it with some dummy numbers). ArcIMS would then do all the zooming, panning, etc., and sends out just the ROI on your behalf. You could also add other layers (e.g. x-ray) and metadata to points of interest. To be honest I'm not sure why ESRI don't repackage it as an image server. Jeremy Jeremy Ottevanger Web Developer, Museum Systems Team Museum of London Group 46 Eagle Wharf Road London. N1 7ED Tel: 020 7410 2207 Fax: 020 7600 1058 Email: jottevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk www.museumoflondon.org.uk Museum of London is changing; our lower galleries will be closed while they undergo a major new development. Visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk to find out more. London's Burning - explore how the Great Fire of London shaped the city we see today www.museumoflondon.org.uk/londonsburning -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Newman, Alan Sent: 06 September 2007 15:09 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server The point of a good jpeg2000 compliant zoom server is performance. You send and receive only the region of interest. Zooming is near instantaneous. With a good interface you see the ROI as a highlighted rectangle against the full view. You then don't have problems maintaining and pre-cutting many details of the the image, or as in the case of Zoomify, you don't create the maintenance havoc of thousands of associated files. Luna's Insight does this well. Even better if there is a great open source alternative. Insight does have the advantage of many integrations with popular CMS apps (including TMS) and a full blown presentation interface for lecturing. On 9/5/07 7:19 PM, Kenneth Hamma khamma at getty.edu wrote: Probably got a point Matt, in any event bigger images is great idea. We are looking at IIPImage at the moment not for general consumption but for easy sharing among professionals of very high resolution images that result as part of the documentation of conservation treatment, investigation and survey. That will likely include zooming and panning but also things like mapping and viewing highly magnified cross sections of paint samples, overlay comparison of x-radiographs and natural light images, and the like. Morgan, Matt matt.morgan at metmuseum.org 09/05/07 2:54 PM Do we know that users like zooming? Or if certain particular groups of users like zooming? I often find zooming irritating. I would mostly rather have a single, somewhat larger full view of an image than to zoom in on just a piece of the image, even if the detail is not as good. Zooming takes more clicks drags, and then I end up with something where I can't really see the work. I just wonder sometimes if the effort we put into zoom is worthwhile. Should we just make the images bigger? I know that ours could be a lot bigger before it's possible to get any financial gain by stealing them. Thanks, Matt On 9/5/07 4:28 PM, Kenneth Hamma khamma at getty.edu wrote: Joanna, We are looking (with National Gallery in London who is already way ahead of us) at IIPImage Server along with java scripts to make it do interesting things beyond simply viewing images. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iipimage and a java browser demo: http://leo.ecs.soton.ac.uk/data/archive/kirk/iipdemos/jiipdemozepler. html We are just at the beginning of this but hope to have something that might be available to the larger community in the near future. If you're interested let me know. ken Champagne, Joanna J-Champagne at NGA.GOV 09/05/07 11:22 AM Hello, How are you? If anyone is currently using a Pan Zoom server or similar solutions opposed to Zoomify would you please let me know, we wanted to learn more about the option. Thanks so much. Best, Joanna ... Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV ... National Gallery of Art Videos Podcasts http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm National Gallery of Art Cell Phone Tour http://www.nga.gov//cell/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery
[MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server
The problem with JPEG-2000 is that it precludes the use of Flash or Ajax based viewers, because neither Flash nor most browsers can support the format. Java applets do work of course, but are quite clunky in a web environment and have long start up times on many platforms, notably Mac OS X. In web environments we have found Flash and Ajax based viewers to be superior to Java based applets because of much quicker startup times and smaller file sizes. There are free open-source alternatives, including the Flash-based Bischen viewer which is built into our OpenCollection collections management package (also free and open-source). It is small (approx. 33kbytes) and can be integrated into your own HTML or Flash-based application. You can see a couple of demos at these urls: http://www.opencollection.org/demo/bischen_demo1.html http://www.opencollection.org/demo/bischen_demo2.html and download the source code here: http://www.opencollection.org/index.php?globalnav=download Bischen uses the TilePic file format (http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/tilepic/). A TilePic file is basically a container for an image tiled at various resolutions. The tiles are usually JPEGs but can be in other formats, such as PNG, if desired. A PHP object is provided with the Bischen source code that can convert images in many formats, including JPEG, TIFF, and PNG, to Tilepic. The Berkeley TilePic site provides a set of tools in Perl to do the same. Tilepic is a very simple format, and it would not take much to implement conversion scripts in other languages. seth The point of a good jpeg2000 compliant zoom server is performance. You send and receive only the region of interest. Zooming is near instantaneous. With a good interface you see the ROI as a highlighted rectangle against the full view. You then don't have problems maintaining and pre-cutting many details of the the image, or as in the case of Zoomify, you don't create the maintenance havoc of thousands of associated files. Luna's Insight does this well. Even better if there is a great open source alternative. Insight does have the advantage of many integrations with popular CMS apps (including TMS) and a full blown presentation interface for lecturing. On 9/5/07 7:19 PM, Kenneth Hamma khamma at getty.edu wrote: Probably got a point Matt, in any event bigger images is great idea. We are looking at IIPImage at the moment not for general consumption but for easy sharing among professionals of very high resolution images that result as part of the documentation of conservation treatment, investigation and survey. That will likely include zooming and panning but also things like mapping and viewing highly magnified cross sections of paint samples, overlay comparison of x-radiographs and natural light images, and the like. Morgan, Matt matt.morgan at metmuseum.org 09/05/07 2:54 PM Do we know that users like zooming? Or if certain particular groups of users like zooming? I often find zooming irritating. I would mostly rather have a single, somewhat larger full view of an image than to zoom in on just a piece of the image, even if the detail is not as good. Zooming takes more clicks drags, and then I end up with something where I can't really see the work. I just wonder sometimes if the effort we put into zoom is worthwhile. Should we just make the images bigger? I know that ours could be a lot bigger before it's possible to get any financial gain by stealing them. Thanks, Matt On 9/5/07 4:28 PM, Kenneth Hamma khamma at getty.edu wrote: Joanna, We are looking (with National Gallery in London who is already way ahead of us) at IIPImage Server along with java scripts to make it do interesting things beyond simply viewing images. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iipimage and a java browser demo: http://leo.ecs.soton.ac.uk/data/archive/kirk/iipdemos/jiipdemozepler.html We are just at the beginning of this but hope to have something that might be available to the larger community in the near future. If you're interested let me know. ken Champagne, Joanna J-Champagne at NGA.GOV 09/05/07 11:22 AM Hello, How are you? If anyone is currently using a Pan Zoom server or similar solutions opposed to Zoomify would you please let me know, we wanted to learn more about the option. Thanks so much. Best, Joanna ... Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV ... National Gallery of Art Videos Podcasts http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm National Gallery of Art Cell Phone Tour http://www.nga.gov//cell/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at
[MCN-L] IP SIG: Fwd: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: July - August 2007
The monthly compilation of IP news items pulled together by VRA colleague Jen Green. Some of these items have already appeared on this list, but much is new... Diane X-Google-Sender-Auth: fdda362b9003bcb5 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:13:29 -0500 Reply-To: Visual Resources Association VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sender: Visual Resources Association VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU From: Jen Green jengreen at UMN.EDU Subject: VRA Intellectual Property Rights News: July - August 2007 To: VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU List-Help: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=VRA-L, mailto:LISTSERV at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU?body=INFO VRA-L List-Unsubscribe: mailto:VRA-L-unsubscribe-request at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU List-Subscribe: mailto:VRA-L-subscribe-request at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU List-Owner: mailto:VRA-L-request at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU List-Archive: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=VRA-L X-ELNK-Received-Info: spv=0; X-ELNK-AV: 0 X-ELNK-Info: sbv=0; sbrc=.0; sbf=00; sbw=000; IPR-In the News? Compiled by Jen Green, University of Minnesota Blog: miscellaneous factZ , produced by the Rufus Pollock, PhD candidate on the subject of innovation and IP at the University of Cambridge, UK, July 9, 2007 http://www.rufuspollock.org/archives/198http://www.rufuspollock.org/archives/198 Pollock's comments on his paper Forever and Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright, recently presented at the 2007 SERCI Congress in Berlin Paper Abstract The optimal level for copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the last decade. This paper contributes several new results on this issue divided into two parts. In the first, a parsimonious theoretical model is used to prove several novel propositions about the optimal level of protection. Specifically, we demonstrate that (a) optimal copyright falls as the costs of production go down (for example as a result of digitization)and that (b) the optimal level of copyright will, in general, fall over time. The second part of the paper focuses on the specific case of copyright term. Using a simple model we characterize optimal term as a function of a few key parameters. We estimate this function using a combination of new and existing data on recordings and books and find an optimal term of around fourteen years. This is substantially shorter than any current copyright term and implies that existing copyright terms are too long. Access the full paper at: http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyright.pdf http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyright.pdf US Targets Chinese Music Download Rules by Bradley Klapper, Associated Press/FoxNews, July 18, 2007 http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul18/0,4670,WTOUSChina,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul18/0,4670,WTOUSChina,00.html The United States is seeking consultations with China over rules on music downloading and cinema rights that appear to discriminate against foreign sound recordings and films, a U.S. trade official said Wednesday. See related topic below: Baidu may be worst copyright violator, says Wikipedia The Open Library Makes Its Online Debut by Brock Read, The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, July 19, 2007 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2235 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2235 Imagine a library that collected all the world's information about all the world's books and made it available for everyone to view and update, write members of the Internet Archive's Open Content Alliance. We're building that library. And now the alliance has put a demo version of that library online. The Open Library is meant to serve as a vast digital card catalog, and Web surfers will be able to edit entries, much like in Wikipedia. The repository will also collect books in the public domain, a mission that will bring the library into competition with Google's much-publicized book-scanning service. Additional resources: Open Content Alliance http://www.opencontentalliance.org/ http://www.opencontentalliance.org/ Open Library http://www.openlibrary.org/http://www.openlibrary.org/ University of Kansas Adopts One-Strike Policy for Copyright Infringement by Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, July 20, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/ypvnmk http://tinyurl.com/ypvnmk In response to the RIAA and MPAA's campaign against file-sharing, the University of Kansas has announced a stringent policy for students found sharing copyrighted content on the university network. Students fingered for file-sharing would be kicked off of the residence hall network, although they would still be able to use campus computer labs. Retailers Call iPod Levy a 'Tax' by David George-Cosh, Globe and Mail Update, July 20, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/3ac6rx http://tinyurl.com/3ac6rx The fight to tax the iPod is far from over. The Copyright Board of Canada announced a decision
[MCN-L] Image Size (was Pan Zoom Server)
This doesn't quite answer the question but addresses the issue of what is worth stealing. We tried some comparative print tests of raw and derivative jpeg images. Raw images were uncompressed tiff approximately 4000 pixels square, the scaled and compressed images were scaled to 1600 pixels and jpeg compressed using Photoshop setting 8. The resulting images were about 1 MB in file size. We printed a range of sizes from 4 x 6 up to 24 x 36 - postcard to poster size. In blind tests most people couldn't tell the difference even at the largest size, only the trained eye could reliably differentiate and not without close examination. While you might expect this result for the smaller prints, the poster size print result was interesting. The largest size was printed to canvas which helped in disguising the artefacts and used a Light Jet printer. -nik Nik Honeysett Head of Administration J. Paul Getty Museum tel: 310-440-7346 fax: 310-440-7751 nhoneysett at getty.edu Real, Will RealW at CarnegieMuseums.Org 9/6/2007 6:19 AM Matt's comment about image size leads me to wonder what members of the MCN community think is the biggest possible image that would not be worth stealing for financial gain. Here we have settled on 500 pixel images, but that was fairly arbitrary. Will Real Carnegie Museum of Art -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Morgan, Matt Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:55 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server Do we know that users like zooming? Or if certain particular groups of users like zooming? I often find zooming irritating. I would mostly rather have a single, somewhat larger full view of an image than to zoom in on just a piece of the image, even if the detail is not as good. Zooming takes more clicks drags, and then I end up with something where I can't really see the work. I just wonder sometimes if the effort we put into zoom is worthwhile. Should we just make the images bigger? I know that ours could be a lot bigger before it's possible to get any financial gain by stealing them. Thanks, Matt You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
[MCN-L] Pan Zoom Server
We've supported zoomable images since the inception of our online collections database in 1996. Users have come to expect it from us, although a small minority has asked for just larger sized images rather than the zoomable versions (first in GridPix, now via Zoomify). One of the drawbacks of having large images available is the misconception by many people that images of any size can be effectively stolen from the web and used for illicit profit-making enterprises. The availability of a larger (500 px +) image seems to reinforce this fear, while zoomable images are usually Flash-based and/or broken up into tiles and suitable complex enough to lessen some of these concerns. Andrew Fox Webmaster Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 415.750.3615 voice 415.750.3550 fax de Young Legion of Honor http://www.famsf.org On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Morgan, Matt wrote: Do we know that users like zooming? Or if certain particular groups of users like zooming? I often find zooming irritating. I would mostly rather have a single, somewhat larger full view of an image than to zoom in on just a piece of the image, even if the detail is not as good. Zooming takes more clicks drags, and then I end up with something where I can't really see the work. I just wonder sometimes if the effort we put into zoom is worthwhile. Should we just make the images bigger? I know that ours could be a lot bigger before it's possible to get any financial gain by stealing them. Thanks, Matt On 9/5/07 4:28 PM, Kenneth Hamma khamma at getty.edu wrote: Joanna, We are looking (with National Gallery in London who is already way ahead of us) at IIPImage Server along with java scripts to make it do interesting things beyond simply viewing images. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iipimage and a java browser demo: http://leo.ecs.soton.ac.uk/data/archive/kirk/iipdemos/ jiipdemozepler.html We are just at the beginning of this but hope to have something that might be available to the larger community in the near future. If you're interested let me know. ken Champagne, Joanna J-Champagne at NGA.GOV 09/05/07 11:22 AM Hello, How are you? If anyone is currently using a Pan Zoom server or similar solutions opposed to Zoomify would you please let me know, we wanted to learn more about the option. Thanks so much. Best, Joanna ... Joanna Champagne Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives National Gallery of Art NGA.GOV ... National Gallery of Art Videos Podcasts http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm National Gallery of Art Cell Phone Tour http://www.nga.gov//cell/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
[MCN-L] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - ARLIS/NA Internship Award 2007-2008
Please forgive cross-postings. Thought this might be of interest to the membership and we would appreciate you spreading the word. Thank you. Best regards, Maureen The Art Libraries Society of North America is now accepting applications for its annual Internship Award. The ARLIS/NA Internship Award provides financial support for students preparing for a career in art librarianship or visual resources curatorship. The award grants $2,500.00 to the selected recipient to support a period of internship in an art library or visual resources collection. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2007. For detailed information about the award and application instructions please see the ARLIS/NA website: http://www.arlisna.org/about/awards/internship_info.html ARLIS/NA Internship Award Sub-Committee Cathy Billings (chair) Maureen Burns Robert Gore Kristen Regina Rina Vecchiola __ Maureen A. Burns, Ed.D. Humanities Curator Visual Resources Collection 61 Humanities Instructional Building University of California Irvine, CA 92697-3375 949-824-8027 phone 949-824-4298 fax MABURNS at UCI.EDU
