The ImageBase
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	ImageBase Basics Everything in the ImageBase is from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor). Approximately 12,000 artists are represented in the ImageBase The ImageBase contains images of 82,000+ objects.

The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor).

The collections (110,000+ objects) belong to the people of the City and County of San Francicso. The ImageBase is an expression of the Museum's mission to provide meaningful public access to the collections and behave more like a resource and less like a repository.

History of the ImageBase
Launched as a website in the fall of 1996, the ImageBase actually has its roots in a collection management project that grew out of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and subsequent 1992-1995 renovation of the Legion of Honor.

High resolution images on the ImageBase were initially served by GridPix technology developed at the Computer Science division at the University of California in Berkeley.

Currently, the ImageBase deploys Zoomify, a powerful Flash-based application, to display high-resolution images online.