LBNL Image Library

Imaging and Distributed Computing Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The LBNL Image Library is a distributed, wide area network based approach to cataloguing, searching, storing, and providing Web access for hi-resolution images. It provides an Web-based image management service to the LBNL community. Its capabilites include rapid browsing of thumbnail sized images, indexed searching over associated text information for each image, collection curation done exclusively via Web tools and text and image format and access control customizable by collection.

ImgLib represents one implementation of the WALDO architecture.

There are three types of users of the Image Library:

Browsers (people who search or browse the collections for whatever reason)
You can browse small images which are grouped by subjects into sub-collections; you can do text based searches over a complete collection; and in some collections, you can retrieve the high-resolution original images.
Authors (who incorporate images and text from ImgLib into their own documents)
You may use ImgLib as an archival source of information through links from your own documents to ImgLib. Examples of this type of use is LBL News 50th Anniversary Issue and A microscopic tour of the lung.
Curators (who create and maintain collections of images and desriptive text)
For more information on the curator function, see User's Guide. If you wish to add images or a collection to the LBNL's Image Library Web server contact (MRThompson@lbl .gov). You may also download the software to your own Solaris Web Server.