Picturing_the_Web -- Searching Images from the Internet
Image Search Engines
Although there are many image search engines available on the internet, there are only a few sources of images that supply these engines. Below are listed the main sources.
Photo Sharing
Flickr - A web site for managing, sharing, organizing and searching for photographs. Photographs are contributed by members (sign up is free).
Flickr Applications - Flickr is open source software and many free applications have been developed with additional functions.
Image Collection Databases
Scientific Illustration Databases
Subject Specific Image Sites
Here are a few web sites with excellent links to subject specific image web sites.
Technical Advisory Services For Images (TASI): Browse Resources
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR)
CBIR involves searching for image content (colours, form, medium, image depicted, historical period, etc.). This kind of searching is still experimental.
Hermitage Museum Digital Collections
Retrievr - will search Flickr photos based on visual information
Colr - will search Flickr photos by colours selected from a colour wheel
Guides on Finding and Using Images
Technical Advisory Service for Images: Advice Guides - A list of excellent online guides to finding and using images.
Google Image Search Help PageUsing Images to Reinforce Learning
A Review of Image Search Engines
About File Types
"Image File Formats" article in Wikipedia
Digital Image File Types Explained
Citing Images
Finding & Using Online Images: Citing Images (SFU)
Copyright Information
Copyright & You (York University)
Copyright & the Internet: Electronic materials (York University)
Concordia University's Copyright Guide for Still Images
Last modified by: Mary Kandiuk on Mon Aug 10 12:08:25 EDT 2009
