This is a list of links to sites that contain image and related materials for the use of images in teaching, prepared by Janis Bell and Adam Donaldson under a grant from the Denison-Kenyon Mellon Program for enhanced learning through collaboration with technology. Please select a category below.

Commercial Image Vendors | Media Asset Management |

AllSport http://www.allsport.com/

An international sports picture agency

Art On File http://www.artonfile.com

Has over 6000 images of public art, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

Corbis http://www.corbis.com

Image Vendor

Hartill http://www3.sympatico.ca/hartills.art

Hartill provides slides for the teaching of art history and architecture, and for a small fee, gives permission for digital licensing.

Liason International http://www.liaisonphoto.com/

Over 4 million images in their library available with a licensing agreement. Liason International is used generally by commercial photographers and designers for corporate media presentations.

Photodisc http://www.photodisc.com/index.asp

A searchable catalogue of 75,000,000 (Royalty-free) images from different fields.

PhotoSearch Stock Photos http://www.fotosearch.com/

Allows users to browse through more than fifty quality stock photo vendors at one site f

Slide Archive http://www.artchive.com/core.html

Mark Harden's slide archive of mostly European Architecture

Tony Stone Images http://www.tonystone.com

Contains over a million images by contemporary photographers.

Cumulus Network 4.0 http://www.canto-software.com

Cumulus Network 4.0 is a leading image and media server/client solution for professional media asset management. It operates on MacOS, NT and UNIX servers and facilitates cross-platform client support on MacOS and Win NT/98/95 workstations. The Cumulus Internet Media Server is a fast way to publish media libraries and distribute media assets on the Internet.

DataWeb http://www.direct-data.com/DirectData/

Not geared towards internet use.

Digital Arts & Sciences products: ImageAXS, ImageAXS Pro, and EmbARK http://www.dascorp.com/

Image AXS is available for about $30 in a hybrid platform and is suitable for students to use to organize their own collections of images, whether scanned, composed, or downloaded. ImageAXS Pro is $179 - $299 and has more features as well as more fields for cataloguing the images (e.g. 100 user-definable fields versus 7 fields). EmbARK is a product for collections managed or an institution and ranges from $995 to $1995 depending upon the version chosen.

According to the review in PC Computing, April 1997, the product's limitation is that it is not easily networked, zooms only to a ration of 8:1, and has no automated way to enter keywords.

EmbARK is a much more sophisticated product for institutional management of a collection. It includes extremely sophisticated image fidelity, displaying each image on the screen in 42-bit, continuous-tone color with descriptive text. There is no limit to the size of the collection. It is a relational database, saving disk size . The Cataloguer consists of over 300 fields and is designed for use in visual resource collections. The Collections Manager provides over 1300 customizable fields for data and management tasks. It is completely searchable and all your information, with a searchable database, can be exported easily to the World Wide Web with Web Kiosk. A free demo is available on CD-Rom from Digital Arts & Sciences.

Imation Media Manager http://ips.imation.com/products/01.01.02mmee.htm

"Imation Media Manager is a client/server application that provides fast, easy access to a variety of digital content, including graphics, audio, video, PDFs and text. Now available in two versions — a Workgroup Edition and an Enterprise Edition — Media Manager is scalable to meet the needs of everyone from internal workgroups to global enterprises. With its open architecture, Media Manager can also be integrated with other software and hardware components to meet your specific needs. What's more, our staff and Certified Integrator partners will work with you to ensure a sound implementation plan and successful integration into your corporate environment."

Insight http://www.luna-imaging.com/insight.html

For an example of this software at work, got to the Estate Virtual Collectionhttp://artistswithaids.org/collection/startup.html

Media Assets 2.0 http://www.mediaway.com/index.html

Mediasphere - W3 http://www.cascadenet.com

Mediasphere: "is a multimedia library system with intelligent indexing and search technology that expedites the retrieval and reuse of content. It is a multi-user, client-server system designed to handle all types of digital objects such as images, text, page files, and PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Natural language queries make searching a quick and intuitive process."

Portfolio 4.0 Extensis http://www.extensis.com/portfolio/

Comprehensive retrieval pop-up menus for authority control. It is prefered by many Visual Resource librarians, about par with Image AXS and Cumulus

Rediscovery Software, Inc. http://www.rediscov.com

Used by institutions to manage museum collections, slide libraries, archives and manuscripts, research libraries, archaeology collections and natural history collections. It runs on local area networds or stand-along systems running Windows. Minimum hardward is a Pentium 90 MHz with 16 Megs of RAM, Windows 95, 98 or NT. This product is used by many slide libraries for cataloguing and searching. One can tag individual images or sort into groups of images, saving subsets for future use (such as images for first week of classes, second week of classes, etc.) These subsets can be downloaded to a world wide web interface and used to project digital images in lecture, saved as study sets for students, or even allow browsers to search and query data.

Telescope http://www.northplains.com/