Message-Id: <mailto:199409022059.PAA28251@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 17:14:37 GMT From: Chris Orr <mailto:ChrisO@BC.AW.COM> Subject: Re: Image Vision II To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
> It seems to me we also need to track other image activities which are
>experimenting with
> various areas of the problem.
>
> Paul M. Gherman
> Director of Libraries
> Olin and Chalmers Library
Paul--thanks for your insight and suggestions. I'm throwing my hat in the ring as a special librarian in a corporate setting, namely a publishing house. My job has just begun: create an art archive of all the complex digital art created here for the books we publish. I come here from the newspaper library world where I built a photo database (at SF Chronicle). The issues are exactly what you name: "Technology, standards, copyright, indexing, and what I will call the meta-organization of the virtual image library" --it's fascinating and challenging. Not the least of the additional concerns are the in-house production demands on the collection. Images are used and re-used, modified and updated, subject to strict deadlines and intense trafficking through the print production process, much of which is done by vendors outside the company itself.
Then there is the commercial lure of making the art available to customers. This is a different sort of access issue for a librarian: not a research demand as much as a commercial one, involving fees and marketing (not to mention copyright protections galore, naturally). Yikes! Any counterparts out there? (well, we're ALL related as image librarians of many stripes...)
Chris Orr Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co (reply to listserve only for now, my personal email box is not yet up and running)