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<FONT FACE="Book Antiqua"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Dear list members,<BR>
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It is with great pleasure — and sincere gratitude to a generous grant from the Academy of Korean Studies — that I announce the launch of a new website: <BR>
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<a href="http://pictori.net">http://pictori.net</a><BR>
<a href="http://www.pictori.net">http://www.pictori.net</a><BR>
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Pictori enables users to upload, manage, share, and use all kinds of images related to Korean studies. Although many list members will already be using other image hosting websites such as Flickr, Photobucket, Instagram or Pinterest, Pictori offers better protection, and more metadata input tools as well as geographic information, allowing users to indicate on a map exactly where a picture was taken. This feature is unique to image management sites, and it will hopefully provide a useful resource. Pictori also allows you to comment on pictures or ask for help in identifying them. Please view the About page for more information about the site, and its use.<BR>
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<a href="http://pictori.net/about">http://pictori.net/about</a><BR>
<a href="http://www.pictori.net/about">http://www.pictori.net/about</a><BR>
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NB: clicking on thumbnails will show the image and all known metadata (including a map where applicable). To see the full-size version of images, users must be logged in. <BR>
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I hope many of you will sign up and upload images you think will be useful to others. If you happen to know some one who is not a list member but owns an interesting collection of images/photographs, please encourage him/her to have a look at the website since we certainly developed the site with them in mind. As I have to approve new members manually (for security purposes), please be a little patient. It should not take more than 24 hours (and could take as little as a few minutes). <BR>
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Last but not least, I would like to express a million thanks to the uncanny Katie Hayne, the designer and developer of the site. She’s worked on this day and night over the past months, and she’s done a truly amazing job. <BR>
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Best wishes,<BR>
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Roald<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Garamond"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Dr. Roald H. Maliangkay<BR>
Dept. of Korean Studies / ANU Korea Institute<BR>
College of Asia & the Pacific<BR>
Baldessin Precinct Building #110, Room E4.37<BR>
The Australian National University<BR>
Acton, Canberra ACT 0200 <BR>
AUSTRALIA<BR>
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