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== Why Imeji? == | == Why Imeji? == | ||
Revision as of 08:52, 11 January 2012
The next release of FACES (former known to FACES 4.0) will bring a lot new functionality to FACES as now the user should be able to create his own collections. This page should help us to make the functionalities of the new release more clearly.
As the software now will be much more than FACES, this new release is called Imeji.
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What is Imeji?[edit]
Imeji - An eSciDoc application to manage images together with their specific metadata
With Imeji, researchers can create and share own image collections and albums. For each collection, a metadata profile can be defined to describe the characteristics of the images within by using texts, numbers, controlled vocabularies, dates, locations, or URIs, giving all metadata elements own labels. This enables complex queries and faceted display of search results. Imeji allows an easy and efficient upload of images through the web browser. Metadata can be edited comfortably for single or multiple images, allowing also efficient maintenance of larger image sets. Subsets of images can be created as albums for re-use in publications. Albums offer stable citations of the subset after released to public.
Imeji is the successor of the software used for the FACES and the DIAMONDS projects.
Pictures[edit]
Imeji allows an easy and efficient upload of images through the web browser.
Collections[edit]
All pictures within Imeji are grouped in collections. Each collection can possess its own metadata profile.
Collections are kept private per default, so that they are only visible for the creator, but they also can be published on the web to make them visible and reusable by other researchers around the world.
A collection has exactly one metadata profile.
Albums[edit]
For the re-use of images in publications or for the illustration of certain research questions, albums can be created in Imeji. Albums are similar to photo albums in the non-digitalized world and are subsets of the content of Imeji.
An album can contain pictures from several collections. Therefore images within one album can have different metadata profiles.
Why Imeji?[edit]
The speciality of Imeji is that is does not only store and share images, but that it also stores and shares the metadata values of the images. Metadata is not just restricted to free defined tags, but are maintained in a standardized manner that allows an advanced search based on metadata profiles. Therefore, images are easily retrievable. Further on, it offers persistent albums which can be cited in publications.
Imeji is a scientific image management application useful for scholars who want to save their images for the web, but also maintaining the corresponding metadata and its values, for data completeness.
How to use Imeji?[edit]
Browse and search is open for everyone. For working with Imeji, uploading images, and creating own collections, an account is needed. Please apply by sending an e-mail to FACES support.