ispheresimage - 1 ispheresimage feature overview and progress summary

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iSpheresImage

Feature Overview and Progress Summary


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Welcome to iSpheresImage

Overview Features Current iSpheres In Development


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Overview To manage the storage, organisation,

and publication of large collections of Images and associated metadata for multiple users.

iSpheres addresses for images: Customisation and bulk management of

Metadata Publishing, privacy and copyright issues Creation of images, for presentations,

publications and other software


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Overview

Connect multiple digital repositories via iSpheresCore Access to multiple digital repositories

including: image & video collections eLearning systems Publications etc..


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Overview

Funding from TIF grants Pays for development costs

Open Source Publicly available at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ispheres PHP v4.3.11 MySQL v3.23.58 Platform Independent


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Features – Image Management

Add, remove images owned by you. Edit metadata on your images Administrators can customize the

metadata (more later) Share images between users Publish images publicly on the

internet.


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Features – Image Management Bulk import of image files

Add large collections of images in folders automatically to the database.

Create Image Albums to Help manage sub collections Create slide shows in

Flash Html

Generate images to specific sizes Link locations to GoogleMap


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Features – Metadata Management

Customise your own metadata using Database and Configuration file

Bulk Metadata Management using XML allows users: Insert new images and associated

metadata Update existing records


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Features - Copyright

Manages Copyright. Automatically adds either the global

predefined copyright or an images specific copyright message to the generated image file.

Allows administers/owners to maintain control on publication of images denoting which are public, for internal use only or private to a specific individual.


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Other Features

File indexing Images can be renamed or moved,

system finds them through checksums Image caching

Allows for faster image retrieval during searches

Faster download times


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Current Users

Department of Archaeology Faculty of Architecture Projects underway

School of Biological Sciences Wilson Museum

Connecting iSpheresImage to iSpheresCore


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In Development

Connectivity to ISpheresCore is due soon. This will allow for communication

between multiple iSpheresImage collections.

Expanding the way Metadata is handled to allow for connection to collections with minimal configuration.


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In Development

Other New Features: Record Duplications New functions for the Flash Slideshow More user focused changes based on

feedback from current users.


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More Information Documentation:

Developer documentation http://dev1.ispheres.org/iSpheresDoc/

Site Map: http://dev1.ispheres.org/iSpheresDoc/iSpheresImage_Site_Map.pdf

Data Dictionary http://dev1.ispheres.org/iSpheresDoc/Data_dictionary.pdf

File Dependancieshttp://dev1.ispheres.org/iSpheresDoc/File_Dependancies.pdf


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More information

General Links: Home Site: http://www.ispheres.org/ Sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ispheres Wiki:

http://c093.acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/mediawiki/index.php/ISpheresImage

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