IM@GIX - An Electronic Commerce Digital Image Bank

Abstract

This paper describes the usage of specific web application designed for the Electronic Commerce of Digital Still Images using some of the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of digital imaging, namely copy right protection. Still images are not only traded using this platform but also value is added to the images through the means of cataloguing, metadata and watermark insertion. This work is performed using some auxiliary tools, which are also referred in the present paper. This paper also proposes and discusses a methodology for streamlining the production of still digital image content. The methodology proposed and described here, called DIGIPIPE, encompasses several steps which range from the simple image digitalization until the image trading, without omitting the image copy rights protection procedures.