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WebNet 96<br />

World Conference of the Web Society<br />

October 15-19, 1996, San Francisco, USA<br />

How to set up and ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong> an image<br />

database on the WWW efficiently<br />

Abstract:<br />

Dermatologische Universitätskl<strong>in</strong>ik<br />

(Chairman: Prof. Dr. G. Schuler)<br />

Hartmannstr. 14, 91052 Erlangen, GERMANY<br />

Email: bittorf@derma.med.uni-erlangen.de<br />

Telephone: +49 - 9131 - 85 - 27 27, -68 37<br />

Fax: +49 - 9131 - 85 - 38 50, -27 28<br />

Dipl. Inf. A. Bittorf<br />

Andreas Bittorf<br />

University of Erlangen, Germany<br />

In various medical specialties as well as <strong>in</strong> other discipl<strong>in</strong>es like market<strong>in</strong>g, chemistry, biology,<br />

etc. there is a great demand for reference images organized <strong>in</strong> databases. Via the WWW those<br />

images can be made available to users everywhere.<br />

After the tutorial the participants will be able to decide how to handle their own images because<br />

many examples will be shown, demonstrat<strong>in</strong>g the effect of manipulation like compression,<br />

gamma correction, as well as the change of resolution and color depth. Further, image<br />

acquisition, quality, <strong>format</strong>s, and color aspects will be addressed. Storage and retrieval mechanisms<br />

will be discussed and the effects of a proper design of the database and description system<br />

will be shown. For the WWW-<strong>in</strong>terface alternatives will be given, consider<strong>in</strong>g access<br />

mechanisms provided, <strong>in</strong>tegration of distributed data, server as well as network load, and<br />

ma<strong>in</strong>tenance. Each of these issues will be discussed <strong>in</strong> detail us<strong>in</strong>g examples. The last part of<br />

the tutorial will be a case study, the Dermatology Onl<strong>in</strong>e Atlas (DOIA) project <strong>in</strong> rlangen. E<br />

After the tutorial the participants should be able to decide how to set up a WWW based image<br />

"database", us<strong>in</strong>g notes 1 and bookmarks.<br />

1 The latest version of the notes is available from:<br />

http://www.uni-erlangen.de/docs/derma/personen/asbittor/tut/imag_db.htm

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