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Integrating access to distributed images: the Electronic Library Image Service for Europe (ELISE) project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Douglas Dodds
Douglas Dodds*
Affiliation:
National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7 2RL, UK
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Abstract

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is a partner in the Electronic Library Image Service for Europe (ELISE) project, which is part-funded by the European Community. ELISE I began in 1993 and was completed in 1995. The V&A’s National Art Library is particularly involved in the second phase of the project, ELISE II, which began in 1996 and is due to finish in 1999. This paper explains the background to ELISE and considers the implications for the V&A and the wider art and design community.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 1999 , pp. 40 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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References

1. The public ELISE web site is at http://severn.dmu.ac.uk/elise/ Google Scholar
2. The partners in ELISE I were:Google Scholar
3. The client/server database software chosen was Index+, produced by System Simulation Ltd. Kodak PhotoCD technology was used to create JPEG compressed working images (768 × 512 pixels) and browsing images (96 × 64 pixels). For more information see Seal, Alan. ‘The Victoria and Albert Museum and electronic imagebanks: image conversion and user reactions.’ Program vol. 29 no. 4 Oct. 1995, p.379–395.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4. The additional partners in ELISE II are:Google Scholar
5. For more about Z39.50, see the links maintained by the UK Office for Library Networking at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/z3950/ For a museum perspective, see the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) web site at http://www.cimi.org/ Google Scholar
6. Further information about the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set is available at http://purl.oclc.org/dc/ Google Scholar
7. For additional information about the background to the ELISE project, see Eyre, John. ‘Distributed image services (working together).’ Vine no. 107 1998, p.65–72.Google Scholar
8. The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set includes the concept of “schemes” - approved lists of thesauri, authority files, classification systems and other controlled vocabularies.Google Scholar
9. The National Art Library has some previous experience in this area, having undertaken a pilot project to examine the practicality of converting its subject headings to AAT For more information, see Savidge, Jane and Dodds, Douglas. ‘The National Art Library’s use of the Art & Architecture Thesaurus: an update.’ Bulletin of the Vocabulary Program 1997, p. 10–13.Google Scholar