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How to increase the cultural and commercial potential of your image collection through improving its multilingual access


9.30 am - 5.00 pm, Friday 3rd April 2009
Science Gallery, Trinity College, Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Ireland


An audience of industry professionals, tutors and students in a contemporary lecture theatre gave this conference the feel of a high-level, in-depth university session. Stella Dextre Clarke opened the day with an introduction to why multilinglingual access is needed, as well as an update on the latest ISO standard in this field. Speakers from other European and EC-funded projects such as Dr. Frederique Segond of CACAO, Dr. Gareth Jones of MultiMatch and Genevieve Clavel-Merrin of MACS followed, enabling MILE to extend its reach across other metadata projects to find out how these have tackled the issue of multilingual access. On the commercial perspective, Agnes Folaji delivered a case study on how Fotofinder, a commercial image database, has approached its multilingual search and retrieval, while Kurt Dressel of Imprezzeo presented image recognition technology as an alternative way to deal with image search and retrieval.

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Speakers included:

• Harriet Bridgeman, Chairman, Bridgeman Art Library


• Genevieve Clavel-Merrin, National and International Cooperation, Swiss National Library, 'Multilingual subject mapping and search: MACS and the European Library' (PPT 722KB)


• Stella Dextre Clarke, independent metadata consultant, 'Thesaurus Standards: Issues in the context of image retrieval' (PPT 584KB)


• Kurt Dressel, Director, Imprezzeo, 'IMPREZZEO : Using Images to find Images – developing image recognition technology for fine art images' (PPT 2,168KB)
  


• Agnes Folaji, Senior Account Manager, Fotofinder gmbh, 'Reality bites Automated translation of metadata for picture agencies and photographers on FOTOFINDER: a case study' (PDF 3,939KB)


• Dr. Gareth Jones, School of Computing, Dublin City University, 'MultiMatch Project: developing a multilingual search engine for intelligent access to cultural heritage digital content' (PPT 4,886KB)


• Dr. Frédérique Segond, Xerox European Research Centre and CACAO Project, 'Accessing, understanding and navigating multilingual textual content' (PPT 2,297KB)


• Jessica Tier, Project Manager, MILE, 'Panel workshop: core fields' (PPT 584KB)