Recovery of descriptive information in images from digital libraries by means of EXIF metadata
| Published date | 13 June 2008 |
| Pages | 302-315 |
| Date | 13 June 2008 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830810880388 |
| Author | Nuria Lloret Romero,Vicent V.G.C. Gimenez Chornet,Jorge Serrano Cobos,Alicia A.S.C Selles Carot,F. Canet Centellas,M. Cabrera Mendez |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
Recovery of descriptive
information in images from digital
libraries by means of EXIF
metadata
Nuria Lloret Romero and Vicent V.G.C. Gimenez Chornet
Research Group CALSI, Research Institute IDF,
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Jorge Serrano Cobos and Alicia A.S.C Selles Carot
Masmedios Ltd, Valencia, Spain, and
F. Canet Centellas and M. Cabrera Mendez
Research Design Institute, Valencia, Spain
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study case of the digitization of documents kept
by the Reino de Valencia Archive and its description and recovery through EXIF metadata from the
digital images obtained. The control of digital images, in terms of identification of their number and
the batches they belong to, can be achieved by naming the digital file with digits that the user can
identify.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper’s objective is to provide image descriptions far better
than by naming the file. For that reason the paper analyses the tools and results obtained with each
one of them.
Findings – Results about using commercial software for metadata image description.
Originality/value – The paper describes a novel use of metadata for historical archives documents.
Keywords Image processing,Archives management, Digitallibraries
Paper type Case study
Introduction
Traditionally, the reprographic requests made at the archives were resolved through
microfilmation and ph otocopying. Nowada ys, with the incorpora tion of new
technologies and digitization plans of archives, the digital image is the format
requested by users due to the facility with which the files can be transferred, and the
quality of the reproduction.
Within the policies and criteria of digitization, each institution creates the mechanisms
or processes necessary to guarantee the control of digital images, in terms of identification
of their number and the batches they belong to. It is also important to consider that the
user needs certain information about the digital images received in order to facilitate
future work with these copies. We are talking about information on size and resolution,
adjustments, colour profiles and the date of creation of the file, among others.
Our work is the product of a series of digitization projects of historical
documentation for the Reino de Valencia Archive, with the objective of better
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LHT
26,2
302
Received 8 October 2007
Revised 16 November 2007
Accepted 28 January 2008
Library Hi Tech
Vol. 26 No. 2, 2008
pp. 302-315
qEmerald Group Publishing Limited
0737-8831
DOI 10.1108/07378830810880388
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