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Wired 12.10 (Oct'04) has an article on photo annotation titled "Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye".

Ben Schneiderman - for the 2001 conference of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction, Shneiderman set up kiosks where members could tag any of 3,300 photos taken over the past 20 years of meetings. Attendees dragged and dropped the names of the people they recognized. "Hundreds of users provided thousands of annotations," Shneiderman wrote in a postconference report.

Google search for: Corbis photos annotate

Organising personal pictures with content analysis technology
Sebastien Gilles, Chahab Nastar, LTU Technologies
http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/sh04/slides/ltu.pdf

Meeting Human Needs with New Digital Imaging Technologies
Ben Shneiderman - University of Maryland
http://dsonline.computer.org/0211/d/up4vav.htm

Direct Annotation: A Drag-and-Drop Strategy for Labeling Photos
Ben Shneiderman, Hyunmo Kang
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/photolib/paper/DirectAnnotation7.doc

Web-siteStarter: Exporting photo library to the web
Richesh Ruchir (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/photolib/)
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/photolib/webstarter.doc

How to use a Controlled Vocabulary, Keyword, Hierarchical Classification, Thesauri, Taxonomy or Subject Heading system to describe images in an image database:
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/

The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users.
http://www.halfbakery.com/

The eVe SDK is a suite of Java component development tools that enable you to build, test, and publish visual search applications. - reportedly "It is also be used to to find images from the 60,000 royalty free images library from Corbis".
http://www.evisionglobal.com/developers/sdk/
http://www.evisionglobal.com/tech/overview.html

Leonardo's Laptop - Chapter 5 - Understanding human activities and relationships
... part of a book by Ben Shneiderman
http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/feature/leonardoslaptop/pdf/chapter5.pdf

Meeting human needs with new digital imaging technologies ...
Shneiderman, B.; Multimedia, IEEE ,Volume: 9 , Issue: 4 , Oct.-Dec. 2002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MMUL.2002.1041942

trailblazer - Visualizing Community Activity with Contextual Metadata
By Francis Li - Interaction Design Institute Ivrea - June 23, 2003
http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/f.li/project/report.pdf

Labeling Images with a Computer Game
Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/ESP.pdf

CHROMA: A Photographic Image Retrieval System
Ting-Sheng Lai - January 2000 - University of Sunderland
http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0sla/thesis/

A Benchmark for Image Retrieval using Distributed Systems over the Internet: BIRDS-I
Neil J. Gunther, Giordano Beretta - Jan 2001
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0012/0012021.pdf

Adaptive Linking between Text and Photos Using Common Sense Reasoning
Henry Lieberman and Hugo Liu - MIT Media Laboratory
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/publications/papers/AH2002-aria.pdf

Robust Photo Retrieval Using World Semantics (2002)
Hugo Liu and Henry Lieberman
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/publications/papers/LREC2002-cris.pdf

Hugo Liu - Research
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/research/index.html

Learning the Semantics of Words and Pictures
Kobus Barnard and David Forsyth
http://vision.cs.arizona.edu/kobus/research/publications/ICCV-01/WAP.pdf

ARIA (Annotation and Retrieval Integration Agent) is a software agent that acts as an assistant to a user writing email or Web pages. As the user types a story, it does continuous retrieval and ranking on a photo database.
http://agents.media.mit.edu/projects/aria/

Using Common Sense Reasoning to Enable the Semantic Web
http://agents.media.mit.edu/projects/semanticweb/

Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures by a Statistical Modeling Approach
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~wangz/project/imsearch/ALIP/PAMI03/01227984.pdf

Picasa - photo organizing software
http://www.picasa.com/picasa/?sourceid=awd&subid=ha-picbd&cv=1

PhotoWiki
http://www.preclick.com/photogallery/display.php?str_queryP=65&str_displayMode=by_photographer

Microsoft: MyLifeBits project

Jim Gemmell - researcher working on MyLifeBits

Joi Ito: International Workshop on Inverse Surveillance - April 12, 2004