[This directory is under construction] --------------------------------------------------------- KONTRON MEMBERS (ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH) PROJECTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ---------------------------------- __________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON (USA) Ralph Martinez is Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and holds a joint appointment in the Radiology and Pathology Department in the College of Medicine. Dr. Martinez is the head of the Computer Engineering Research Laboratory, where he conducts research in high-speed networks and protocols for multimedia medical imaging and Gobal PACS networks. Dr. Martinez's lab has developed a Remote Consultations and Diagnosis (RCD) software system to support teleconsultations over the Internet, satellite, and ATM networks. The RCD services for radiology and pathology include image acquisition and storage, image annotation, real-time voice consultation, video conferencing, and recording and playback of RCD sessions. Dr. Martinez is also the head of the Health and Medical Informatics Program (HMIP) in the College of Medicine. The program includes an academic component in five track areas of medical informatics and biomedical engineering. Descriptions of the Global PACS project and HMIP can be reached via Mosaic at http://zax.radiology.arizona.edu. _______________________________________ AT BALYOR UNIVERSITY, WACO, TEXAS (USA) Teresa Grose, Collections Manager at the Strecker Museum Complex, is developing automated classification of images based on "fuzzy systems that are defined by mapping attribute networks in multidimensional space." ___________________________________ AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON (UK) Andrew Prescott, Curator, Department of Manuscripts _______________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (USA) Mickey Ellinger is a software development specialist for the botanical database project Specimen Management Systems for the California Herbaria (SMASCH) that been using the Kontron ProRes 3000 for the past two years to digitize images of 12 by 17 inch herbarium specimen sheets. "SMACH is a collaborative effort by the Association of California Herbaria to implement a database that documents the classification and distribution of vascular plants in California. This database will be available on the NSFNet for use by taxonomists, ecologists, conservationists, environmental consultants, and other in both the public and private sectors." (They've even had a humanist come to the project looking for a particular specimen of historical interest!) Please see URL: . --------------------------------------------- Mary Kay Duggan (Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley). Current teaching includes "Computers and the Humanities" with TEI and SGML segments, as well as digitization, OCR, and text processing software such as AWK, GREP, and TACT; "The yInternet and Higher Education" with HTML editors for construction of web home pages, creation of newsgroups, MOOs, etc.; "Print and Power in America, to 1900" with image assignments from web pages (slides to Kodak CDs to GIF). Research includes the implications of media transition, especially from manuscript to print (writing a book on 15th-century music printing in Germany) and print to digital. Submitted NEH proposal to digitize encode and provide melodic access to California Gold Rush music. Web site: info/slis/general/mkd/mkd.html ____________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS (USA) Bonnie Holt (Fine Arts Librarian in the Department of Art and Art History) supervises research and testing of "QBIC," IBM's image query software program that is currently under development, to see whether the software will prove useful for retrieving art images based on image content rather than text indexing. Such a search tool would be useful for faculty and students who are interested in finding examples of a motif used across geography and time without having to used a standard authority list. With QBIC, patrons are able to make requests such as, "find other images that look like this," and the software will search for other images in the database that contain similar colors, shapes, and textures, singly or in combination, even by location in the image, and return them in descending order of match. The Slide and Art Libraries in the Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis house a collection of more than 200,000 slides and approximately 90,000 mounted art reproductions. These collections serve as a unique visual resource for faculty research and teaching within the department and across the curriculum. Their interest in creating an electronic database was prompted by the way that faculty and graduate students used these collections. Librarians from both libraries frequently deal with requests from patrons based on the content of an image rather than a particular artist's work. The search may be for a particular brushwork, an image of an animal, or a particular iconographic element. This research was conducted incooperation with the Machine Vision Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Victoria Yturralde's department (?) has over 10,000 negatives to be scanned, cataloged, and networked (just a fraction of their total holdings) and they are working with Stokes Imaging Services, trying to decide whether to purchace their own scanning equipment or to outsource image capture. _________________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ (USA) James Bierman (Dramatist) is creator of the _Electronic Hamlet_, which is built around nine sections, each of which focuses on a major issue in the interpretation of Hamlet that is open to the player's interpretation by means of the computer's computational and memory powers. "Ultimately, when the player has defined a consistent interpretive path throughout the nine sections, he or she will have a complete program." ___________________________________________ AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY (USA) Janet Gertz is Director for Preservation, Columbia University Libraries. During the Oversized Color Images Project, supported by a contract from the Commission on Preservation and Access, five vendors have worked with oversize, color maps from brittle volumes of the "New York State Museum Bulletin" in order to compare the results of scanning from the original maps and from fullframe color microfiche and transparencies made of the original maps. Scanning has been done at high resolution, with 24-bit color. The vendors are variously using the Leaf and Kontron digital cameras, Optronics drum scanner, Kodak Photo CD, and other relevant methodologies. Vendors have also made paper printouts using the Iris and other printers. Comments on image quality, access issues, etc. are welcome. Send email to: Gertz@Columbia.edu. The images and an interim report can be accessed at: . ____________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN (NORWAY) Claus Huitfeldt, Director of the Wittgenstein Archive The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published only one book of philosophy, the _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_. On his death, however, he left behind approximately 20,000 pages of unpublished manuscripts. Many of those, such as the _Philosophical Investigations_, have been published posthumously, but even today large parts of his writings remain unpublished. The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen aims to make all the writings of Wittgenstein available in the form of machine-readable transcriptions (tagged text files). Approximately 7000 pages have now been transcribed. A feasibilty study has been conducted to consider the production of a facsimile CD-ROM version of the collected writings, to be published by Oxford University Press prior to or in addition to the transcriptions. ______________________________________________________________________ AT THE DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES, SCHOOL OF CELTIC STUDIES (IRELAND) Padraig de Brun _________________________________________________________ AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL, NEW YORK CITY (USA) Steven Erde ________________________________________________ AT DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA (USA) Thomas La Porte _________________________________________________________ AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS (USA) Richard Ellis, Co-director of the Library Electronic Text Research Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Fenske, music manuscripts ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jane Hensen, Associate Director of ERIC (Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Sciences Education) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Kloesel, Director of the Peirce On-line Resource Testbed project: a computer-mediated, collaborative editing environment and first step toward building a network research community based on the 100,000-page collected manuscripts of philosopher-scientist Charles S. Peirce. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Mitchell, Systems Manager of the IMAGIS project __________________________________________________________ AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND (USA) Suan Lewis is Online Projects Manager at the JHU Press and the originator and Co-coordinator of Project Muse, a consortial initiative of the University Press, the Milton Eisenhower Library, and Homewood Academic Computing to make over forty jounals available on the World Wide Web. In 1991, she launched AAUP-L, an online discussion group for the Association of Amercian University Presses. ___________________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (USA) Kevin Kiernan, Editor, Electronic Beowulf Project The "Electronic Beowulf" project is part of the British Library's "Initiatives for Access" program to make its collections more available to the public through new technologies. Paul E. Szarmach, Director of the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, and Kevin Kiernan, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, are the academic directors of the project and Kiernan is its editor. The electronic archive is assembling an encyclopedic series of databases, founded on the only extant manuscript, of Beowulf materials, including eighteenth-century transcripts, nineteenth-century collations, glossaries, bibliographies, important editions and translations, and other relevant resources. A team at Kentucky that calls itself GRENDL (Group for Research in Electronically Networked Digital Libraries) is developing software to link all related images in the archive and make them available on multiple platforms and across the Internet. There are currently ftp sites at the British Library (othello.bl.uk) and the University of Kentucky (beowulf.engl.uky.edu), where anyone can retrieve over the Internet a selection of scaled images from the Beowulf manuscript. There is also a World Wide Web presentation of the project by Kiernan at http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/welcome.html. The Electronic Beowulf is now a project of the new Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Research,the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. The academic directors expect that the project will eventually provide a comprehensive interactive electronic archive, an on-line exhibition, and a diversified series of CD-ROM-type packages of Beowulf and ancillary materials for scholars, teachers, and students at all levels. ________________________ AT LEEDS UNIVERSITY (UK) Brian Kelly, the Support Initiative for Multimedia Applications ________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITE LUMIERE, LYON (FRANCE) Pierre Ageron, Charge de mission, has built an images database management system: the "Client-Server Producer" system for local networks and the Internet. _____________________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE CAMPUS (USA) Tim Brennan is Professor of Policy Sciences at the University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore (UMBC campus). He hopes ACCORD members will rely on him as a consulting resource on antitrust, regulation, and industrial organization issues facing the telecommunications industries. He is on the advisory board for an OTA study of wireless telecommunication and on the organizing committee for the 1995 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. He is editing a symposium issue on antitrust and telecommunications for the Antitrust Bulletin, and works on a limited part time basis for the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. Tim also has interests in copyright law, philosophy of science, and ethics that he hopes prove useful to ACCORD resource development projects. >From January through August of 1995, Tim will be a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future to work on numerous projects related to environmental economics and technology. ___________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (USA) Peggy Daub, Head of Special Collections and Arts Libraries, hopes to digitize Michigan's collection of ancient Egyptian papryi, which is the largest in the Western world. They have compared many methods of digital imaging on a small sample of the material. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ George Bornstein, the Yeats Project The Yeats Project intends to produce a hypermedia edition of Yeats' poetry, which will include an electronic variorum text; transcriptions of the manuscripts; images of manuscripts, periodicals, and books, including dust-jackets and covers; comprehensive annotation, including of images of persons, places, works of art and so on alluded to in the poems; and recordings of the poems, both those few extant by Yeats and new recordings by contemporary Irish poets. Distribution is planned on CD-ROM. The project will commence with a prototype edition of _The Tower_ (1928) [its guilded cover was imaged during the Kontron tests at Michigan], edited by George Bornstein, Richard Finneran (University of Tennessee), Mary FitzGerald (University of New Orleans), and William H. O'Donnell (University of Memphis). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Traianos Gagos, Associate Archivist at the Special Collections Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Kennedy, Coordinator of Collections Management and Network Systems Administrator at the Museum of Anthropology ______________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, DENTON (USA) Terry Clower, Research Associate at the Center for Economic Development and Research _________________________ AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY (UK) Peter Robinson, the Canterbury Tales Project _____________________________ AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (USA) Toby Paff, Manager of Information Access and Research Services at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology. His many projects include preparing French literature manuscript transcriptions and the University's art slide library collections for Web access. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Reath of Collectors Reprints, Inc., ran a Kontron testbed at the Firestone Library last summer. He is a publisher of rare, literary editions, but is moving into the new era with the Optical Archives project and would like to exchange information about image capture, storage, and distribution. They are currently working with the Thomas Wolfe Estate to publish electronic facsimiles of the Wolfe manuscript material (mostly at the Houghton Library, Harvard). _____________________________ AT THE RAND CORPORATION (USA) Libby Gill, Director of Library and Distribution Services ______________________________________________________ AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY (USA) Susan Hockey, Director of Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, which is sponsored by Princeton University and Rugers The State University of New Jersey. The Center's mission is to advance scholarship in the humanities through the use of high quality electronic texts. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Rosenberg, Managing Editor of the Edison Papers project, which is sponsored by Rutgers University, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and the New Jersey Historical Commission. He is responsible for the project's computer operations, which include planning and implementing the transition from book and microfilm to an electronic edition. __________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (CANADA) Ann DeVito (Department of Computer Science), is currently Technical Advisor to the Corsortium for Latin Lexicography to develop an electronic version of the _Thesaurus Linguae Latinae_ on CD-ROM. The _TLL_ is the foremost Latin lexicon, providing detailed notes on usage and a wealth of citations, both of Latin works and of scholarly articles. Ann telecommutes to the University of California at Irvine, where the Consortium for Latin Lexicography is based. Ann previously worked on a hypermedia shell project called Arachne that "facilitates the production of hypermedia literary database systems by supporting the automatic generation of conceptually relevant links." ____________________________ AT SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY (UK) Mark Greengrass, the Hartlib Project _____________________________________ AT SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY, LONDON (UK) Simon Polovina, the Southwark Telecommunity Research INterest Group (STRInG) _______________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) Maria Tullgren, Institution for French and Italian Studies _______________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE (USA) Richard Finneran, the Yeats Project The Yeats Project intends to produce a hypermedia edition of the poetry, to include an electronic variorum text; transcriptions of the manuscripts; images of manuscripts, periodicals, and books, including dust-jackets and covers; comprehensive annotation, including of images of persons, places, works of art and so on alluded to in the poems; and recording of the poems, both those few extant by Yeats and new recordings by contemporary Irish poets. Distribution is planned on CD-ROM. The project will commence with a prototype edition of _The Tower_ (1928), edited by George Bornstein (University of Michigan), Richard Finneran, Mary FitzGerald (University of New Orleans), and William H. O'Donnell (University of Memphis). _____________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA) Mark Chignell (Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering) develops and evaluates multimedia authoring support tools. His research interests include text browsing tools, video analysis, indexing, browsing/retrieval analysis of the multimedia authoring process, and new methods of multimedia authoring and development. He is co-author (with Karman Parsaye) of the excellent book _Intelligent Database Systems Design and Development_. _____________________________________ AT UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, PROVO (USA) Mary Barworth is Director of Collections at the Intermountain Museum, where her long-range objective is to complete the _Manual of North American Grasses_. In the meantime, she is working to provide more people (the public, as well as students) with the capability to identify plants accurately--which requires their access to high-quality images. She is currently working with Shawn Swaner to produce a CD-ROM-based learning system on plant morphology for use by students but also available for anyone who wants to learn. Eventually, such images could be made accessible on the Web to provide herbaria, the US Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management with a more extensive reference collection for use in veryifying identifications. ____________________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE (USA) Thornton Staples is Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, where research is conducted on how to produce, manipulate, and organize high-quality digital images as a basis for research in the humanities. They identify needs that current software sytems do not address and have been developing an image annotation tool that "allows scholars to attach marked-up textual annotations to details of a digital image." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerome McGann (John Stewart Bryan Professor of English) is author and editor of more that twenty books (on Romantic Poets and on textual editing), founder of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and director of the Rossetti Hypermedia Archive (a large, research collection of high-quality images and text on the life and work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Price-Wilkin (currently serving as Humanities Text Initiative Librarian at the U. of Michigan Library, the UM Press, and the Library School doing text creation and resource management, and conducting research with the Library School). He has been working for IATH as a consultant on SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) matters. He coordinates the University's electronic text centers initiatives (Electronic Text Center, Digital Image Center, Special Collections Digital Center, Social Science Data Center, and Multimedia Center), does all the Unix system support, and has just trained his replacement for the University Gopher and WWW Operations Manager. ______________________________________________ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE (USA) Ellen Jensen, Computing and Communications _________________________________________________________________________ Gary Menges, Head of Special Collections Native Amercian Photograph Collection digitizing project ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob McGough, Health Sciences Center for Educational Resources URL: www-center.hs.washington.edu/cer-main.html ----- End Included Message -----