Annotating

Attaching text information to the image or group of images, for example:

• Keywords or tags
• Alt-text
• Caption
• Description
• Source
• Freeform comments
• Related links
• Pointers to uses of the image
• Rating

Searching

User searching - locate images based on specified keywords or other metadata.

Federated search API.

Storing

Create basic repository structure and place images in the repository.  AKA "upload."

Manage multiple file formats (e.g. Illustrator or Photoshop, plus JPEG, TIFF) and multiple resolutions (thumbnail, web res, print res).

Updating

Replace or delete existing images.  

Also annotations and albums?

Display

The GUI aspect of the tool, defining web browser navigation, thumbnail to zoom view behaviors, rollover, how metadata is shown, etc.

Presenting

Managing logical groupings of images, e.g. "albums."

Create "slideshow" based on albums or other constructs.

Placing selected images into sequences.

Other details of presentation, e.g. animations, transitions.

Rights Management

Includes information related to the source of the image and also downstream terms of its use.  When a user downloads an image, it must be made clear what rights they have and how the image must be cited.

Sharing

Define who can perform specific functions within the repository, especially:

• View
• Create and save album
• Annotate
• Download
• Update
• Store

See Authentication/Authorization

Accessing - aka Browsing?

\[I'll assume accessing = browsing.  Otherwise I don't know what it is. - Curt\]

Present the repository content in a hierarchically-organized set of standard groups -- i.e. library cataloging terms.  Screenfuls of thumbnail images.

Authentication/Authorization

Allow users to be associated with particular read/write rights per the Sharing feature.

Create and manage user accounts.

Retrieval - aka Download?

Allow users to download selected images to specified site, perhaps with ZIP utility.

Archiving

Ability to export collections with associated metadata to an institutional archive.

Ability to mark images within the repository as no longer available for updating/annotation?

Additional Features proposed by Curt 4/16

Organizing

Create, save, and manage logical collections of images, e.g. "albums."

• Place selected images into sequences.
• Attach comments.
• Share albums.
• Export albums.

Workflow

Stages like create, draft, QA, review, publish.

APIs

For integration with other tools - course management (e.g. Stellar), content management system (OCW's),

Statistics

Track and report statistics about visits, downloads, and use of images and albums.

Features that seemed redundant in the 4/11 version?

Collaborating - redundant with Sharing?