INTRODUCTION TO ART IMAGE ACCESS - ISSUES, TOOLS, STANDARS, AND STRATEGIES

Four specialists in image cataloguing who work at major research institutions - the Getty, UCLA, the Index of Christian Art, and the U. of Oregon - have each submitted a thoughtful essay on the issues and possible solutions for creating databases that allow users to easily locate the images they seek. The definitions allotted to images, the complexities in defining images of other images, how one defines art image, the tasks ideally served by the cataloguer, and the methods and needs of the image database user are the topics considered. There is a glossary and bibliography, but no index. The volume is well illustrated, in b&w, with images from the Getty collection (where Baca heads the Standards Program).