Generic Image Structures in Integrated Media

The generation, capture, storage, processing and retrieval of image-data objects requires a universal representation for the open-ended global environment of integrated media. That is a representation integrable at the content level both semantically and pragmatically with text based and multi-modal data types. Interoperability requires the same platform-independent methods to be applicable whatever the application. Open systems impose common de facto standards which possess an underlying naturality expressable in formal categories. It is argued that all image forms and their complex structures are representable in the same general pullback category.