interesting urls: Avalon, ARTISTE, Gabriel

[Doug Millison]

The Avalon Project: African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and
History
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/treatise/african_americans.htm

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School, (last mentioned in the April 4, 1997
_Scout Report_) has recently added an African American biography,
autobiography, and history section. The section contains complete copies of
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech, _My Bondage and
Freedom_ by Frederick Douglass, _The Narrative of Sojourner Truth_, dictated
by Sojourner Truth and edited by Olive Gilbert, _The Souls of Black Folk_ by
W.E.B. Du Bois, and _Up From Slavery: An Autobiography_ by Booker T.
Washington. All transcripts are lucid and available in HTML format.



ARTISTE: Image Retrieval System Puts European Galleries in the Picture
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/artiste/

Still under development, Artiste's image retrieval system seeks to cross
link, integrate, and render more searchable the vast holdings of four of
Europe's grandest museums: London's National Gallery, London's Victoria and
Albert Museum, Paris's Louvre, and Florence's Uffizi Gallery. A massive
endeavor, the project relies on metadata and sophisticated content analysis
of 2 and 3D collections to build a linked database now containing more than
60,000 separate images. Artiste's presentation of its work and progress is
both detailed and well illustrated, carefully walking visitors through the
process designed to yield new ways of studying art and identifying the
complex interrelationships between works, themes, and masters.


Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/

Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries (last mentioned in the
February 19, 1999 _Scout Report_) has been redesigned and updated and is now
showcasing an improved, more user-friendly platform. Covering 41 European
national libraries from the 39 countries represented in the Conference of
European National Librarians (CENL), Gabriel offers information on their
services, online exhibitions, and printed and electronic collections, as
well as instructions on how to gain access to their online catalogues and
services. Accessible in English, French, and German, all Web sites of the
European national libraries can be searched simultaneously using a single
keyword or phrase.

>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2002.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/