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The image is the record – Similarity-based image search for visual materials in digitized library collections: The approach of the Bavarian State Library
Abstract:
With 96,000 manuscripts, 20,000 incunabula, and more than 160,000 rare books of the 16th century,
the Bavarian State Library is one of the major institutions for written cultural heritage worldwide.
Huge parts of these unique collections are digitized and freely available for research and study. They
contain vast amounts of images of immense value to researchers and students in arts and humanities.
To make these treasures more visible, the Bavarian State Library, in cooperation with the Fraunhofer
Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, has developed a similarity based image retrieval tool that operates directly
on the level of the digital content. The colours and edges of the images themselves are used as
metadata to explore related and similar images in a rich content-repository of rare books and
manuscripts.
Keywords: Similarity Search, Image Search, Visual Library Materials, Creative Search Capabilities, Automatic Metadata Generation
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