There is currently no obvious and easily accessible Image Library with Vaxholm images (historical and non-historical) and/or Vaxholm related story telling, either for the residents or for all the hundreds of thousands who visit Vaxholm from other countries every year. We think that is a pitty and something we ought to change.

We also think the time is ripe, not the least because of the technological development that have now made it both much easier and much cheaper than it was just 10 years ago to to build a place like this. An Open Official  Picture Library might both vitalize the cultural life, support the development of local business and benefit both the locals, the important tourism and other visitors.

The technological development during the last 10 years have also made instant automatic translation tech available to us all, something very complicated and costly if doable at all 10 years ago. This site here can be switched to autotranslate into more than one houndred languages between Afghan (Pashto) to Zulu from English or Swedish using for example the Microsoft Egde Internet-browser. Something very handy for all these tourists visiting Vaxholm every year.

This attempt is also more than just a test of a usable interface for displaying hopefully interesting pictures and later hopefully even interesting local story telling. It is also a test of a complete hopefully efficient image workflow intended to speed up the processes of taking care of an often fragile cultural heritage of old analogue images before the time fades it all away.

In the test environment you will find test pictures both from the Vaxholm and Stockholm archipelagos but also pictures that are added as examples of where we stand now with AI image analyses and autogeneration of Description texts and Keywords. Especially the pictures of "Global Architecture" are examples of that kind. Other examples of the same sort is the Descriptions of all the "boat"-pictures. If you want to just see Vaxhom motifs just search for "vaxholm" or "archipelago". Don´t forget to test the keyword-filtering

Download of Pictures: Just put the pictures you like to download in the "Shopping cart" by clicking the "Shopping cart symbol" on the pictures. When ready click the "Shopping cart symbol" in the upper right corner and follow the instructions. Download is free as the system is built by now BUT you will be forced to log in in order to perform the download.

Sten-Åke Sändh

Rindö Hamn

Contact: stenis01@gmail.com