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Challenges and Strategies for Finding Illustrations in Academic and Digital Resources

This article explores the difficulties faced when locating illustrations in books and journals. Many databases do not reference images individually, while photographic collections often require subscriptions, limiting free access. It discusses various strategies for image retrieval, including using library catalogues with keywords, specialized image search engines like Google Images, and collection-based search platforms. Additionally, we highlight content-based search engines that index visual characteristics, providing a comprehensive guide for researchers and users seeking illustrations in academic and creative fields.

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Challenges and Strategies for Finding Illustrations in Academic and Digital Resources

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  1. Finding Illustrations Roger Mills

  2. The problem • Illustrations in books/journals are usually not individually referenced in databases • Photographic collections are usually subscription services and not accessible free online • Describing pictures in words is not easy

  3. Technical Advisory Service for Images – TASI www.tasi.ac.uk/index.html

  4. Images in printed publications • Printed indexes e.g. Index Londiniensis • Library catalogues: search keywords like ‘illustrated’ or look for ‘ill.’ in notes • Bibliographic databases e.g. TREECD: may have specific keyword but often not fully indexed

  5. Really?

  6. Image Search Engines • general search engines, like Google or Altavista • specialised image search engines - services devoted to indexing images or multimedia • meta- search engines, which pass on search requests to more than one search engine and then bring back the results. • collection-based search engines - services that index a single or small number of image collections. Large digital libraries or commercial stock photo collections, like Corbis, typically offer such search engine-like facilities. • content-based search engines which 'index' visual characteristics of an image, such as its shape and colour

  7. General search engines • AllTheWeb Picture Search / FASThttp://www.alltheweb.com/ • Altavista Image Searchhttp://uk.altavista.com/image/ • Google Image Searchhttp://images.google.com/ • Lycos Multimedia Searchhttp://multimedia.lycos.com/

  8. Googleimages.google.co.uk/

  9. Knitting according to Google

  10. Specialised Image Search Engines • Ditto.comhttp://www.ditto.com/ • Picsearchhttp://www.picsearch.com/

  11. PicSearchwww.picsearch.com/

  12. General meta-search engines • Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/) • Webcrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com/) • Mamma (http://www.mamma.com/) • Fazzle (http://www.fazzle.com/)

  13. Specialised meta-search engines • Ithaki (http://images.ithaki.net/) • Ixquick (http://www.ixquick.com/) 'Spring-board' searching • Photoseek (http://www.photoseek.net/) • Search 22 Picture and Image Search Engines (http://www.search-22.com/images.html)

  14. Search22www.search-22.com/downloads/images.php

  15. Collection-based Image Search Engines • Corbishttp://www.corbis.com/ • Getty Images Creativehttp://creative.gettyimages.com/ • Webshotshttp://www.webshots.com/ • 1StopStockhttp://www.1stopstock.com/

  16. Brand X Pictureshttp://www.brandxpictures.com/ Magnum Photoshttp://www.magnumphotos.com/ Bridgeman Art Libraryhttp://www.bridgeman.co.uk/ Mary Evans Picture Libraryhttp://www.mepl.co.uk/ Clipart.com (was ArtToday)http://www.clipart.com/ National Geographic Imageshttp://www.ngsimages.com/ Christie's Imageshttp://www.christiesimages.com/ nonstockhttp://www.nonstock.com/ Comstockhttp://www.comstock.com/ Photos To Gohttp://www.photostogo.com/ eStockhttp://estockphoto.com/ Photospinhttp://www.photospin.com/ Hulton Archivehttp://www.hultonarchive.com/ Stockbytehttp://www.stockbyte.com/ Index Stock Imageryhttp://www.indexstock.com/ TimePixhttp://www.timepix.com/ Freeimageshttp://www.freeimages.co.uk/ Stock Photo Collections

  17. Freeimageswww.freeimages.co.uk/

  18. Stock Photo Collections • More can be found via the membership lists of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA - http://www.bapla.org) and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA - http://www.stockindustry.org/).

  19. BAPLAwww.bapla.org/

  20. Content-based Search Engines • IBM’s QBIC: Query by Image Content http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/ seen in action on the Hermitage Museum website http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/ • IIDR projects: • http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/research/cbir.html • IIDR links to other content-based projects: • http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/links/cbirlinks.html

  21. Institute for Image Data Researchwww.unn.ac.uk/iidr/

  22. Content Managementwww-3.ibm.com/software/data/cm/cmgr/mp/

  23. Subject gateways • BIOME http://biome.ac.uk • RDN Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/resourcefinder • HEA Higher Education Academy (formerly LTSN) http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ • AHDS Visual Artshttp://vads.ahds.ac.uk

  24. BIOMEbiome.ac.uk

  25. RDNwww.rdn.ac.uk/resourcefinder

  26. LTSN bioscience ImageBank Pilotbio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank/

  27. Subject-based collections • Oxford Scientific Films http://www.osf.uk.com/ • Nature Picture Library http://www.agpix.com/naturepicturelibrary • Plant Image Galleryhttp://www.plant-pictures.com/ • Vascular plant image libraryhttp://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/imaxxmag.htm • Bristol Biomed Image Archivehttp://www.brisbio.ac.uk/ • ARKivehttp://www.arkive.org.uk/ • Lifesignhttp://www.lifesign.ac.uk/

  28. Oxford Scientific Films www.osf.uk.com/

  29. AGPixwww.agpix.com/

  30. Nature Picture Librarywww.naturepl.com/

  31. Plant Image Gallerywww.plant-pictures.com/

  32. Vascular plant image librarywww.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/imaxxmag.htm

  33. ARKivewww.arkive.org.uk/

  34. Tree of Lifetolweb.org/tree/

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