How to create image library ?

**Balgovind** · 06-04-2009

I want to create an image library for photographs that I have saved on the file. However, I am completely unaware about this. Can anybody provide me the detailed information about the same. Do I have to purchase any application for this ?

thanks a lot....

**ThoMas321** · 06-04-2009

Image Library -
The LBLN Image Library is a Web Server designed to help researchers organize and easily browse and search through collections of large images. Creation and access to an image collection is done entirely through a Web interface which provides graphical, platform-independent and location-independent access.

Finding a desired image in a collection of many large images presents several problems. The usual problems of finding one item in a large set is compounded by the fact that the most effective way to identify an image is to display it, but in the case of large images remotely stored this can be very slow.

The Image Library provides the following tools to address these difficulties:

allows the collection to be laid out in hierarchical sub-collections which can be independent of how the original images are stored
keeps a text description file associated with each image and indexes over these files
creates and stores a set of smaller "thumnail" images that can be viewed quickly
provides browsing tools to present sets of thumbnail images selected by subcollection, search results or individually by the user.

**ThoMas321** · 06-04-2009

Image Library Collection -
An Image Library collection consists of textual and graphical indexing material associated with pointers to the original images. A user or project creates a top level collection with the assistance of the Image Library administrator. Once the orginal beachhead is established the collection owner is able to completely manage the collection via Web form interfaces.

When creating an Image Library collection, the user must have the original images accessible to the Image Library server. Either the filesystem that the original images are kept on can be NFS mounted to the machine on which the Image Library server is running, or a copy of the Image Library software can be run on the machine on which the images reside. If the original images are kept on LBNL's Mass Storage System, the Image Library server can reference them via the MSS http server.

A collection contains a description file for the collection which includes such items as the owner's name, default values for viewing the collection, current location of the original image files, format of the thumbnail images, information about what users may access the collection and whatever identifying description the owner wants to enter. There is also a default tag file which defines keywords and default values for the text metadata that is associated with each image and a metadata definition file that defines the non-textual metadata associated with each image, e.g the image thumbnails, compressed representations of the data and the pointer to the original data.

A top level collection may be subdivided into hierarchical subcollections for organizational purposes.A subcollection may inherit properties from its parent at creation time, but subsequently it acts like an indpendent entity with two exceptions: indexes can be created covering subtrees of collections; and the users and groups that may be granted access to each subcollection are shared. So while each subcollection can have different access lists these lists can only refer to users and groups that have been registered at the top collection level.

**chroma** · 06-04-2009

You can also use the softwares or applications for creating your image library.

This is very easy and automatic method of creating image library once you download and install the software on your computer system. Once you run the software, it will provide the automated tools to create an image library...

There are number of softwares available.....however some of them are -