John Cupitt
John gave us an introduction to VIPS, a C++ based set of libraries for handling VERY large data sets related to imaging. An art museum might be interested in this for high resolution images using visible light data, infrared, or ultraviolet data, then processing all of this in some way. There are also medical imaging applications for handling large collections of images for further processing and analysis. In addition, this is of interest to archaeologists, who might take complex sets of images from a site to be analyzed later. The key to VIPS is its low requirements for hardware capabilities.