SLIDEFINDER: herramienta docente para clasificar, buscar y compartir imágenes en soporte electrónico

Abstract

This paper outlines the joint project developed by the University of Cantabria and the Non Government Association “Educación para la Solidaridad Grupo Brezo” in order to develop a software tool to classify, search and find images thru the World Wide Web. The main idea of the project implies the digitalization, storage and sharing of more than 80,000 slides of different themes (landscapes, people, folklore, history, natural disasters, etc.) made along 40 years by the members of Brezo all over the word. This kind of images can be of interest for educational, E-learning and research purposes. An open source platform based in PHP and MySQL has been chosen in order to develop the application shown here, the engine has been implemented under “friendly user” philosophy and it is self-explicative, the above mentioned features make the software an interesting tool easy to use by users at any level.