Blue Angel Technologies Powers Snapshot of Australia's History.Business Editors VALLEY FORGE Valley Forge, on the Schuylkill River, SE Pa., NW of Philadelphia. There, during the American Revolution, the main camp of the Continental Army was established (Dec., 1777–June, 1778) under the command of Gen. George Washington. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2001 The National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia is located in Canberra, Australia. Established in 1960, the Library grew out of the Federal Parliamentary Library, which was established in 1901. (NLA NLA National Library of Australia NLA National Liberation Army (Macedonian rebel group) NLA No Longer Available NLA Network Location Awareness NLA National Lipid Association NLA National Legislative Assembly ) has launched an award winning site that allows Internet users to find images of Australia's cultural heritage. Winner of the Financial Review Australian Internet Award sponsored by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the PictureAustralia site contains up to 500,000 pictorial representations of anything that has shaped the nation, including national events, public figures, sporting icons and political figureheads. The images can be viewed for free, but people who use the service will be able purchase high-resolution copies online. The site is available at http://www.pictureaustralia.org/. PictureAustralia is the brainchild of Debbie Campbell, project manager of the service. She said the site had been designed to provide a single gateway -- transparent to users -- of images from its own collection and those of other government institutions. Some of these institutions include the Australian War Memorial The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organizations who have died or participated in the wars of the Commonwealth of Australia. The memorial includes an extensive national military museum. , the state libraries of NSW NSW New South Wales Noun 1. NSW - the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare Naval Special Warfare , Victoria and Tasmania, and the National Archives of Australia The National Archives of Australia is a body established by the Government of Australia for the purpose of preserving Commonwealth Government records. It is an Executive Agency of the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts and reports to the Minister for . "Australians don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what each of these image collections [of the various institutions] have in them," Campbell said in reference to the array of photos contained in library and gallery archives across the country. Having PictureAustralia as the central reference site will make it easier for people to tap into these collections. Campbell said the site has been designed so it is simple to access. This includes an understanding of the likely users, who range from schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school working on assignments through to the elderly. "In the first instance, we have kept software as simple as we can. For example, clients aren't required to download Flash," she said. On the server side, the search database uses the metadata schema called Dublin Core, a standard schema for describing objects. Once images are described, the descriptions are then placed in a subdirectory A disk directory that is subordinate to (below) another directory. Also called a "subfolder." In order to gain access to a subdirectory, the path must include all directories above it. See path. . When an image request is made, software provided by Blue Angel Technologies searches and browses interfaces in the library's metadata repository to find a match. To maintain the upload of pictures to the site by the various libraries, PictureAustralia will use Blue Angel's software to harvest, on a monthly basis, descriptive records for each of the new images it adds to its collection. Those descriptive records are then indexed by Blue Angel's software making it easy for each search request to pull up an accurate response. Campbell was confident of the site's success and business model. She said clients [institutions] pay the NLA a "modest fee" to be linked to the site and for associated marketing activity. "But to offset that, the NLA provides high level advice [to its clients] about metadata schemas," she said. According to Campbell, there is easily a potential for PictureAustralia to cull cull the act of culling. Called also cast. from 1 million images in the near future. "It's in our sights," she said. About Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. Blue Angel is an e-commerce solutions provider. Its innovative XML-based MetaStar software facilitates the capture, management, publishing and discovery or information within and between organizations. By using MetaStar as an application framework, organizations can quickly and easily deploy internet-based information management, knowledge retrieval and e-commerce applications without changing existing environments. For more information, visit Blue Angel's World Wide Web site at www.blueangeltech.com or call (610)-917-9200. |
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