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Searching for Still Digital Images

Can Link Charts help?

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Sample Link Charthttp://www.rff.com/link_analysis_sample.htm

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Example Link Chart

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Vincent van Gogh

The originals of the still digital images shown in the following three slides were painted by Vincent van Gogh. There is therefore a relationship or link between van Gogh and the three paintings depicted.

This relationship can be described in words or in the form of an entity relationship diagram or link chart

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The Starry Night

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html 

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Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/2116/Self-Portrait-with-Bandaged-Ear-and-Pipe.html

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Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/784/Young-Peasant-Woman-with-Straw-Hat-Sitting-in-the-Wheat.html

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Descriptors

A solid line is used for confirmed relationships.

A broken line is used for those links that are not yet confirmed.

One website indicated that the original self portrait in the following chart was housed at the Tate.

A visit to the Tate’s official website did not confirm this.

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Chart Formation

A link chart can be constructed by importing the data contained in a relational database.

Additionally, an authorised person (analyst, indexer or user) can augment or correct inaccurate information on the chart

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Database Example

Entity Attribute Link Entity Attribute

Vincent van Gogh Person Painted Starry Night Painting

Vincent van Gogh Person Painted 1890

Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat Painting

Vincent van Gogh Person PaintedVincent van Gogh Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe Painting

Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat Painting Painted 1890

Auvers-sur-Oise:Location

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

VideoSung by

ArtisteSinger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

VideoLink Starry Night Painting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

VideoLyrics Vincent van Gogh Person

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starrynightlyrics.html

Song LyricsLocation 2012 Starry Night Digital Copy

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html

Web PageLocation 2012 Starry Night Digital Copy

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html

Web PageLocation 2012

Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat Digital Copy

http:www.commonwealmagazine.org Magazine

Published

Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat Poem

Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat

PoemLink

Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat Painting

http://www.bellagio.com/attractions/gallery-of-fine-art.aspx

Art GalleryLocation

Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat

PaintingYoung Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat Poem

Written ByErica M

Poet

http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/getting-here

Web PageLocation 2012

The TateMuseum

The Tate MuseumLocation 2012

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe Painting

The Tate MuseumLink 2012

http://www.tate.org.ukWebsite

http://www.tate.org.uk/ WebsiteLocation 2012

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe Digital Copy

http://www.tate.org.uk/ WebsiteLink

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/2116/Self-Portrait-with-Bandaged-Ear-and-Pipe.html

Web Page

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/2116/Self-Portrait-with-Bandaged-Ear-and-Pipe.html

Museum WebsiteLocation

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe Digital Copy

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Zoom

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Links to Documents

Clicking on an icon can Enlarge it, thereby increasing accessibilityTake the user to a webpage with a related

documentReveal the actual document the icon

represents

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Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat

Poem by Erica Mapp© 2006 Commonweal Foundation, Reprinted with permission.

Long leaves like ribbons of green silk shot with pink,The grain is gold and the pink floweringConvolvulus clings tighter to the stem.A pale straw hat with untied sky-blue knotHaloes her red face. Realization comes.Desire fills her...she is lost to self...And in a breath her breast holds all the stars, The deep blue opening, above her head.At last, she is no longer made to wait,The maid whose apron is immaculate.All is concealed in wheat, in wheat revealedSomething is happening no eye can see.Hortus conclusus, virgin, unicorn...Betrayed by flesh, He walks and poppies bloom.

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Content Based Image Retrieval

Links to colour schemes and shapes can be introduced thereby possibly providing a starting point toward bridging the gap between concept-based and content based image retrieval.

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Timeline

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Links to Other Databases

Additionally, one relational database can be linked to another in an entirely different location once there is at least one entity in common

In the following example “Bandaged Ear” is the common text or link

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Links to Other Databases

Helena Bonett, ‘Harold Gilman 1876–1919’, artist biography, October 2009, in Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context, May 2012, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/harold-gilman-r1105360, accessed 19 February 2013.

Harold Gilman, Photo: © Tate, London 2012

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Possible Access Points Provided by a Link Chart

Location of Original Location of Digital Image Location of Analogue

Image Location where Painted Date Painted Name of Artist Artist’s Affiliations Surrogate Work Exhibition Location Related Textual Works Restoration Date Digitization Date Related Text

School of Art Medium Technique Used Colour Scheme Title Description Content (CBIR) Digital Image Dimensions Frame Exhibition Date Words in a Document User Tag Emotion Evoked

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References

Bonett, H. (2009). Harold Gilman 1876–1919: Artist biography. In H Bonett, Y Holt and J. Mundy (Eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context, May 2012, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/harold-gilman-r1105360 accessed 19 February 2013.

IBM. (2011). IBM Completes i2 Acquisition to expand big data analytics portfolio for smarter cities: Technology to benefit clients in government, law enforcement, retail and insurance. Retrieved from http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35505.wss

Jorgensen, C. (2003). Image retrieval: Theory and research. Lanham, MD. Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Mapp, E. (2006). Peasant woman with straw hat sitting in the wheat. Commonweal Foundation. www.commonwealmagazine.org

Pissarro, J., Stolwijk, C., & van Heugten, S. (2008). Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night. http://www.momastore.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10451&productId=53841&p

RFF Electronics. (2013). Sample link chart. Retrieved from http://www.rff.com/link_analysis_sample.htm

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References Continued

Tate. (2012). Tate, Britain. Retrieved from http://www.tate.org.uk/ van Gogh, V. (1889). Self portrait with bandaged ear and pipe.

Retrieved from http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/2116/Self-Portrai

t-with-Bandaged-Ear-and-Pipe.html van Gogh, V. (1889). The starry night. The Museum of Modern Art,

New York. http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79802

van Gogh, V. (1889). The starry night. The Van Gogh Gallery. Retrieved from http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/508/Starry-Night.html>.

van Gogh, V. (1890). Young peasant woman with straw hat sitting in the wheat. The Van Gogh Gallery. Retrieved from http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/784/Young-Peasant-Woman-with-Straw-Hat-Sitting-in-the-Wheat.html

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