Introduction to Digital Media and Methods Section

Introduction to Special Section on JPEG 2000 Digital Imaging

In the past 20 years, the industry that deals with digital imaging has taken advantage of two major technological improvements, which deeply changed the way it does business: common availability of numerical image data and the Internet. A third innovation was recently introduced and is due to become a commercial reality in a short time: mobile imaging. Sector analysts predict that the sales of ...

Introduction to the special section on linguistically apt statistical methods

In 1994—about six years after it was first infiltrated by statistical methods—the Association for Computational Linguistics hosted a workshop called “The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language” (Klavans & Resnik, 1996). The workshop argued that linguistics and statistics were not fundamentally at odds, even though the recent well-known statistical techniques fo...

Metadata for Digital Media: Introduction to the Special Issue

One of the key problems to be solved to share in formation is the development of metadata that is the data about data While the issue of metadata has re ceived a fair share of attention in conjunction with structured and text data most of the current prac tices in the context of digital media and multimedia data management are ad hoc Metadata assumes more importance when manag ing digital media...

Introduction Digital Media, Communication & Power in Summary

The genre of the essay, as Hesse (1998) reminds us, may be traced back to the artistry of Montaigne. At that time, expository discourse was first a matter of composition by quill and ink, blotter, messy drafting and re-copying. A genre of an information communication technology (ICT), the essay was invaluable in the positing of argument and the demarcation of its disposition. It enabled ideas t...

Designing Digital Communities that Transform Urban Life: Introduction to the Special Section on Digital Cities