SPIRO and ImageQuery at the University of California at Berkeley

Maryly Snow SPIRO (Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online) is the Architecture Slide Library's visual online public access catalog at the University of California at Berkeley. SPIRO utilizes ImageQuery, an image-oriented database access system developed at the University of California at Berkeley for access to its numerous image and object collections. This article describes SPRIRO's front-end, ImageQuery, with emphasis on its features and future enhancements.