Integrating An Image Database into the World Wide Web
Associate Dean C. Olivia Frost and
Associate Professor Karen Drabenstott,
with an assembled research team, are carrying out a study funded by a
Department of Education grant.
This research is intended to investigate ways of providing intellectual
access to images in electronic databases. The researchers intend to
enhance the capabilities currently built into Internet tools such as
Mosaic and Netscape by creating a classification and retrieval system that
will facilitate the browsing of digitized images.
Specifically, an experimental system for classifying and retrieving images
associated with the history of art has been designed, implemented, and
currently is being evaluated. This database has been made available for
use on a networked (World Wide Web) server at the School of Information
and Library Studies (SILS).
A full project summary is
available.
Research Team Members
Principal Investigators
C. Olivia Frost, Associate Dean, 1993-Current
Karen Drabenstott, Associate Professor, 1995
Joseph Janes, Assistant Professor, 1993-1995
Collaborators
Joy Blouin, UM History of Art Slide and Photograph Collection
Antonia Kramer, UM Museum of Art
Programmers
Ken Alexander
Greg Peters
Research Assistants: Current
Stephen Markel
Anne Noakes
Bradley Taylor
Deborah Torres
Sally Twickler
Vlad Wielbut
Research Assistants: Previous
Susan Atkins
Michael Creech
Barbara Fowler
Kendra Frost
Mark Handel
Irene Leung
Andrew Midkiff
Sherry Piontek
Nancy Ramaglia
Mike Rice
Monika Schmitter
Alan Smith
Rise Smith
Karen Spencer
Cameron Trowbridge
Sally Twickler
John Weise
ILS 608 Student Team, winter term 1994
Bill Landis
Sherry Piontek
Phil Ray
Martha Vander Kolk
The University of Michigan School of Information
Please send comments to sils-doe@umich.edu