Imeji

imeji - Publish Your Scientific Multimedia Data

imeji creates citable research assets by describing, enriching, sharing, exposing, linking and archiving data.

The software, based on the eSciDoc infrastructure offers a dedicated metadata management by supporting a non-restrictive metadata schema definition, as simple as liked or as complex as needed.

All objects within the imeji software have a unique identifier and therefore can be referenced in publications or reused in other contexts (dissemination). Large collections can be organized in different albums to focus special items of interest.

Items imeji allows an easy and efficient upload of items through the web browser.

Collections All pictures within imeji are grouped in collections. Each collection can possess its own metadata profile. Collections are kept private per default 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 For the re-use of items 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 items within one album can have different metadata profiles.

Collaboration imeji provides locking mechanism down to picture level to enable secure collaborative work. When someone tries to edit a locked item, an information message will be displayed. To avoid confusion when more than one user tries to edit the metadata of the same picture(s) at the same time, the system takes care that always the newest version of the pictures and its metadata is displayed. And this will be the only version that is editable.

imeji in use

• The Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
• The Institute of Art and Visual History - imeji-Mediathek
  • Collections and projects of the IKB
    • Migration of the Mediathek image database 'Imago' in progress (Karsten Asshauer, Jörg Busse)
    • Urban Art Berlin (seminar, Ilaria Hoppe)
    • Digital Peirce Archive (research project, Moritz Queisner, Franz Engel, Tullio Viola - Karsten Asshauer, Jörg Busse) - http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/forschung/laufende-forschungsprojekte/digital-peirce-archive/
    • Adolph-Goldschmidt-Zentrum zur Erforschung der romanischen Skulptur - Digitales Corpus zur romanischen Skulptur Nordspaniens (research project, Prof. Dr. Kai Kappel, Prof. Dr. Claudia Rückert, Kathleen Waak, Anja Seeliger - Karsten Asshauer, Jörg Busse) - http://www.goldschmidt-zentrum.de/
    • REQUIEM - Die römischen Papst- und Kardinalsgrabmäler der frühen Neuzeit (research project, Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Arne Karsten - Karsten Asshauer, Jörg Busse) - http://requiem-projekt.de/
• Test instance of the National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan

Why imeji?

The specialty of imeji is that is does not only store and share items, but that it also stores and shares the metadata values of the items. 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, items are easily retrievable. Further on, it offers persistent albums which can be cited in publications.

How to use imeji?

We set up a demo environment at: http://imeji.org
The browse and search functionalities within public collections are accessible for everyone. For uploading items and creating own collections, an account is needed. Please apply for an account at our demo instance by sending an e-mail to the support mailing list.

License

The imeji software is developed by the open source imeji community. The code is distributed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).

The Birth of imeji

imeji is the successor of the software evolved from the FACES project.

Enhanced Scientific Documentation

Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte der HU Berlin

Common Development and Distribution License