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This Technical Report specifies two things. The first is a framework for interoperability for still image search and retrieval. The second identifies an architecture and the components in this framework, the linkages between components, and which of these components and links are to be standardized in JPSearch. The image search and retrieval framework will be determined by real use cases (tasks) and will leverage on lessons learnt in the long history of text retrieval where, for example, different users issuing the same query may be looking for (very) different results. This is important because it means that the framework must be general enough to support many possible approaches to image retrieval, e.g., from using only low-level image features, to text annotations, to community input, or a mixture of such approaches. From the framework and components, and the linkages and flow of data between them, the parts of JPSearch that need to be standardized can be determined.