Overview of the Statewide Image Library

The Statewide Image Library is a repository of imagery that will likely continually grow.  The images in the library are approved and available for use by state of Oregon agencies and entities at no charge.

So, it's just a place for me to go get images from, right?

NO! Not just!  While these images are available for download to those creating documentation, communications and other sources that are not necessarily web sites or online applications, the Statewide Image Library is a place where images are housed.  It defeats the purpose to have a perfectly good image in the library while a copy is downloaded and re-uploaded to a website.  Instructions can be found here:

Use images from the Statewide Image Library in Oregon.gov websites. (link coming soon)

A Library in the Cloud

The Statewide Image Library is housed on a Content Delivery Network (CDN) so it does not rely on the performance, nor even the presence of the web servers to hold content.  The CDN is in the cloud, so the location of the image asset may be fluid and in constant motion.  The cloud is made up of many thousands of web servers that share the load of serving up the content that is placed there so that regardless of problems 'on the ground' so-to-speak, the content in the cloud can find the best way to get to wherever it's being requested.

An Intelligent Library?

The Statewide Image Library uses artificial intelligence (AI) for a couple of things.  The AI can 'read' the image and pick out attributes that it recognizes such as flowers, mountains, dogs, birds, sky, stars, etc. and add tags to the uploaded images automatically.  These are not set in stone.  Sometimes the AI doesn't recognize things and sometimes it thinks an image contains something it doesn't.  The author can remove and add tags as is appropriate to the image at any time.  The AI also scans the image for 'important' content and makes adjustments to the center point and cropping technique when the application creates the different sizes and aspect ratios of images in the Image Wizard.

Video

The video offers a tour of the Statewide Image Library but does not go into specifics of use.  See the suggested links below for articles on that.

Related articles

• Access to the Statewide Image Library
• Using Images in the Statewide Image Library
• Managing images in the Statewide Image Library

Using images from the Statewide Image Library in website pages (coming soon)

Gaining access to the Statewide Image Library

Still have questions?  

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• You can find more articles in the V4.x Article Index
• You can submit a question to the Oregon E-Government Service Desk