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Image Database Task Force Sue Wilson, Illinois Wesleyan University, Chair Beth Sandore, University of Illinois at Urbana/ Champaign ReportsChargeThe CARLI Board has endorsed as a high priority the creation of a large collection of digital images to support learning, instruction, and research in all disciplines. The data base will include images that are publicly available for free (e.g., the New York Public Library Picture Collection Online, http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/ ), images that are purchased by CARLI for all or part of the consortium’s members, images that are available for purchase, and images that are created and/or owned by CARLI members and/or their campuses. Although the images likely will be stored on more than one, possibly many, servers, access will be universal and will appear to the user as a single source. The Task Force is charged to develop a plan to build this data base in phases and in tiers, with a ‘core’ base of images that will be available at no fee to CARLI members. The plan should include at least a high-level sketch of the architecture that will enable distributed sets of such images to be searched simultaneously and appear to the user as a single data base and should address such issues as sources of images; metadata production and maintenance; searching and harvesting capabilities; estimated resources required; funding models; grant opportunities; and digital rights management. The CARLI Board recognizes that these are large and complex issues, but it asks that the task force organize its work and report back with a plan of work and timetable by January 15, 2006. |
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