Message-Id: <mailto:199409092138.QAA07154@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 10:29:49 GMT-0700 From: Steve Smith <mailto:steve@NEXT-S.LANL.GOV> Subject: Distributed Image Data Base - World Wide To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
Geoff -I just read your brief note to the "IMAGELIB" mail list regarding WWW and Image databases.
We are very interested here in pushing for a serious project to evolve WWW based services toward supporting a Global Image database, available to all for browsing, searching, and retreiving. We foresee the need for many levels of service, from "free" information to "cost recovery" to full-commercial, all in the same environment.
We have some very advanced image compression, image indexing, seamless image database and progressive transmission research going on here, ready for prime time. We also have truly enormous (terabyte) storage facilities with fast network access which might be available for a serious enough project of this ilk.
I would very much like to discuss with you more, how we might be able to collaborate, using what you have done at Murdoch as a good example of what can be done already and as an indicator of what is needed beyond this to really achieve a world-wide available distributed image database.
For a limited view of what has already been done here, take a look at the following... they give a hint of what we are up to but do not do it justice:
I will be pulling over your /Pub/Res-and-Dev descriptions - Do you have PS or HTML or Text version? I'm neither a Mac nor PC person, though I do have a Mac Powerbook which I can load the Mac Word document on (over a phone line!).
- Steve Smith Project Leader Distributed Information Systems Computing, Information and Communications
Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA