[Web4lib] RE: Open Source Image Repository Software

[Rowan Brownlee]

No - but if you might be interested in aspects of the iSpheres project -
developed at the University of Sydney.

http://www.ispheres.org/

"ISpheres provide a distributed interoperable solution to serving a range
of data - from images, sound, video and text to databases and GIS
datasets. Each ISphere can manage several heterogeneous collections of
digital objects, translate metadata specific to each collection into a
common interoperable format, and serve digital objects transformed as
required by the requesting application.

ISpheres include their own web services, so they can be installed on any
Internet-connected computer with the Java runtime, making their digital
object collections discoverable, searchable, transformable and
downloadable. Individual ISpheres are registered with a global directory
at www.ispheres.org, making them and their collections discoverable.

Any ISphere can search and retrieve data from any other ISphere (subject to
authorisation) and present the results in an integrated list of resources,
as well as serving data on-demand to client applications. Communication
with an iSphere is through SOAP/XML."

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Greg Sennema gsennema at wlu.ca
Tue Apr 25 14:17:31 EDT 2006


Whilst taking a look at Greenstone as a possible solution for a digital
image collection, I realized that Flikr has some collaboration attributes
that might be helpful to our project.  Does anyone know of opensource
software that would allow us to create and host an image database
combining the metadata functionality of Greenstone or DSpace, the
collaborative aspects of Flikr, and the customizability of WordPress?

thanks
greg


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Rowan Brownlee
Digital Repository Project Analyst
Innovation and Development Unit
Level 4, Fisher Library
Camperdown Campus
University of Sydney
NSW  2006
Australia

Phone   +61 2 9036 6450
Fax     +61 2 9351 3689
Email   r.brownlee at library.usyd.edu.au


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