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iSpheres: Intelligent Image Repository System

iSpheres is a robust image repository system with automatic resizing, search indexing, customizable metadata, and more. Developed in 2004, it offers a user-friendly interface and quality control managed by indexing experts. It's part of the APSR and SORRT projects, integrating with existing tools like WebCT and PARADISEC.

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iSpheres: Intelligent Image Repository System

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  1. OLIVER and iSpheres

  2. OLIVER features • Automatic image resizing • Full text indexing • Customised metadata • Configurable authentication • Simple user interface • Quality control managed by indexing experts

  3. APSR and SORRT • SORRT is a subproject of APSR • APSR = Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories • SORRT = Sustainable Object Repositories for Research and Teaching • The main partners in SORRT are the Library, Med Faculty, the SSIU, and PARADISEC

  4. iSpheres • Emerged from Med Faculty’s and SSIU’s image repositories (OLIVER, ImageBank, ArchImage) • Development began in 2004, code released on sourceforge.net July 2005 (under Apache licence)

  5. Features • Configurable metadata • Distributed • Data source Connectors, to allow plugging in to existing repositories • Object file types and transformations are plugins • SOAP interface for building specialised front-end interfaces, linking into existing tools (WebCT, etc) or protocol translators

  6. iSpheres is middleware

  7. Planned (or hoped-for) front ends • iSpheresImage (general purpose image repository) • WebCT • Resource Builder • Med Faculty CMS • PARADISEC • OAI harverster client • Desktop iSpheres

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