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 If the four main values of structure of a photo are supposed to be what, who, location and emotion [Unpublished thesis!], it can be argued that these methods can at best give us what, who and location; they are incapa...
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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...
If we stay so wrapped up in technology we can miss very important things that are happening around us.In the article “Can the Selfie Generation Unplug and Get into Parks?” Jonathan Jarvis says that “young people are more separated from the natural world than perhaps any generation before
Kellerman, Susan, and Rebecca Wilson. "Survey Results." Digitizing Technologies for Preservation. Ed. Laura Rounds. Washington D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1996. 3-28. Print.
Critically analyzing of visual media artifact investigates visual culture. An analysis entails image interpretation of image equally applicable to genres of photographs as form of advertisement. In this paper, I will critically examine photographs. According to Barrett (2011) he suggested that critic starts with description that involves developing a list of facts concerning the subject matter within the image. Description is a data gathering process of photograph (p. 17). It’s also establishing a typology of the photograph’s content matter. Similarly Bathes’ (1977) suggest that “all images are polysemous” (p. 38) because of the subject matter, hence creation of complexity for visual reader in making decision what aspect to read, pay attention or ignore of the photograph. The paper will discuss the wunderkammer series that contains nine photographs.
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 actual massification of photography tends to make us forget that photography, while a commodity for some - like the smartphone user snapshooting a pair of shoes on a shop window to share with friends – is something else for many others. It may be a very technical thing
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...
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Dating back to the year 1800, photography has been used to capture and encrypt parts of history worldwide. These records can be used to serve as memories or even for analyzation for future progression of society. Changing day-by-day, it is one of the most desired aspects of technology. People tend to go after products with the best image capturing capability such as phones. Photography makes yesterday seem like today and today look like tomorrow. Differences that can not be expressed in words, can be clearly depicted with the help of photography. The use of photoshop in photography must remain an intricate part of society because it allows communities to establish a common mode of communication worldwide, it can be manipulated and edited to
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.
“Visualization is enabled and mediated through technology” (pg.179). With different apps you can download on your mobile phone to share pictures or contexts, it is easier for media to spread around to people of all ages. Reproduction of original images is also easier to do now because with the click of your side buttons on your phone you can own it. Like what Walter Benjamin said in his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, no image is truly unique. There are plenty of side by sides of films or photographs that show that there is no unique idea or placement inside them but it is merely a copy of something else and the pattern continues forward with time. In his essay, Benjamin said “An original artwork’s meaning changes
loosening the spesific creativity in each picture. When people see the major mass of photos
Liu, J. (2007). Metadata and Its Applications in the Digital Library: Approaches and Practices. Westport. CT: Libraries Unlimited .
We see photographs everywhere. It is printed on magazines, newspapers, billboards, brochures, packages, bags, and toys, etc. The world wide web is filled with photographs. Flickr alone holds more than 4 billion photographs. Facebook members upload more than 2 billion photographs per month (Stern, 2011).
Hanne Darboven, for example, arranges her collection of random images into sorted displays in demonstrating their relationships to one another. Her work, Kulturgeschiechte 1880-1983, 1980-83, however, suggests that any such effort will always fall short of perfect completion. Matt Mullican’s collections of signs, symbols and pictographs shows viewer that our visual attention is selective in that we pay various levels of attention to signs depending on our individual needs at the time we pass them by. Similarly, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas, a forty-year-old collection of found and artist-generated images of every sort you can imagine, collected as source materials for paintings are displayed as evidence of the way biases inform the images we choose to construct our realities from, and, logically, that there are as many realities in the world as there are people to perceive them (2013 Pg.