Resources
Welcome to The MILE Project's virtual library.
Please click on the titles below for presentations and reports from MILE seminars and key industry events, and useful links relating to metadata.
MEETINGS
Presentations and reports from MILE's seminars to date. "Orphan Works in Practice"
Panel Seminar, Friday 5th June 2009; Seminar Room 1, Maritim Maritim International Congress Centre, Ostraufer 2, Dresden, Germany"Know Your Rights"
Metadata and Intellectual Property Rights Conference, Wednesday 3rd June 2009; Conference Room 6, Maritim International Congress Centre, Ostraufer 2, Dresden, Germany"Towards a Multilingual Future"
Metadata Search & Retrieval Conference, Friday 3rd April 2009; Science Gallery, Trinity College, Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Ireland"A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
Metadata Classification Conference, Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th January 2009; The Royal Thames Yacht Club, 60 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LF"Speaking in Tongues"
Metadata Search & Retrieval and Translation Seminar, Friday 3rd October 2008; The Royal Thames Yacht Club, 60 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LF"IPR Solutions"
Metadata and IPR Seminar, Wednesday 4th June 2008; Cettina de Cesare III, Intercontinental Malta, St. George's Bay, St. Julian's, Malta, STJ 02"Semantics & Semiotics"
Metadata Classification Seminar, Friday 18th January 2008; The Assembly Hall, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London, SW1P 3NZ, UK"IPR Frameworks"
Metadata and IPR Seminar, Friday 29th October 2007: Hotel Prestige Congress, C. de Jose Aguste Goytisolo 9-11, 08908 Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain"Word and Image"
Metadata Classification Seminar, Thursday 23rd August 2007: Palais Niederoesterreich, Altes Landhaus, Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna, Austria"Lost in Translation: Successful Searching?"
Metadata Search & Retrieval and Translation Seminar, Tuesday 5th June 2007: Sala Onice, Villa Vittoria, Florence, Italy. In conjunction with CEPIC"Bridgeman vs. Corel: Copyrighted Creativity or Commerce?"
IPR Case Study Seminar, Thursday 3rd May 2007: Queen Mary's College, London, UKMILE Project Kick-Off Meeting
Thursday 11th January 2007: The Thistle Hyde Park Hotel, 90-92 Lancaster Gate, London, W2 3NRKEY RELEVANT INDUSTRY EVENT REPORTS
Reports on independent industry events, external to MILE, attended by MILE's partners.VARIAZIONI, November 2008
PACA, October 2008
CHArt: Digital Archive Fever, November 2007
MICROSOFT Pro Photo Summit July 2007
IPTC "Towards a Seamless Photo Workflow" June 2007
Andrea de Polo, Alinari, PMA Conferences March 2007
Annette Godefroid, Bridgeman, Berlin, EUDICO "Europe's Cultural & Scientific Heritage in a Digital World" February 2007
Connecting Culture and Commerce, January 2007
MCN ACCESS TO ASSETS: Return on Investment, November 2006
LINKS
Catalogued links to downloads of relevant resources, such as controlled vocabularies, metadata scheme and IPR guides, and relevant company websites. USEFUL COMPANIES, ORGANISATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Alinarihttp://www.alinari.com/
Picture photo archive, museum and gallery
Archetypon S.A.
http://www.archetypon.gr/
IT Services company operating in information, communication, technology and language services
BAPLA
http://www.bapla.org.uk/
Trade association for picture/stock libraries and agencies
Bildombudsmannen AB
http://www.bildombudsmannen.se/english/
Juridical advisor for BLF. Treasurer of the Cepic board
The Bridgeman Art Library
http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/
The world's richest and most comprehensive source of cultural and historical art images available online
Electric Lane
http://www.electriclane.co.uk/
Consultancy and training for people who work with images
Trinity College Dublin
http://www.tcd.ie/
Department of electronic and electrical engineering, research information systems and services
RELEVANT RESOURCES
Collections Linkhttp://www.collectionslink.org.uk/get_to_grips_with_copyright.
Provides fast, easy access to current best practice in 16 areas of professional collections management
Controlled Vocabulary
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/
Information on keywording, thesauri and metadata
Google Translate
http://translate.google.com/translate_s?hl=en)
Facilitates automated translation for a cross language search
Gower's Review of Intellectual Property
Gower's Review of Intellectual Property (PDF 691 KB)
The Bridgeman Art Library's Response to Gower's Review of Intellectual Property (PDF 210 KB)
An independent review (commissioned by UK Government, 2006) into the UK's Intellectual Property framework, and The Bridgeman Art Library's response to the review
Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information (Getty Information Institute)by Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland, Mary J Woodley. Edited by Murtha Baca
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/index.html
Information on metadata, and how it can improve access to digital resources
IPTC Working Group
IPTC Working Group: Fields
Metadata Manifesto
http://metadatamanifesto.blogspot.com/
A proposal for the adoption of guiding principles, standards and technology to promote metadata use
Metadata, Thesauri, Taxonomies, Topic Maps
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html
Published paper arguing the case for topic maps
Tripod Automating Caption Creation
http://tripod.shef.ac.uk/
Project to improve access to visual media (photos, videos)
W3C Image Annotation on the Semantic Web
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-image-annotation-20070814/
Explains the advantages of using Semantic Web languages and technologies
White Paper on Image Metadata
http://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/0.0/documentation/IPTC-PhotoMetadataWhitePaper2007_11.pdf
White paper to devise a way for improving photo workflows
