Ansel is a picture gallery for web sites. It is a high quality, information-rich photo gallery, designed to handle large numbers of images and albums. It stores all its images in a database, making it both fast and flexible. Ansel is similar in spirit to Shutterfly and Yahoo pictures, but does not place restrictions on image size.

ANSEL, American National Standard for Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use, is a character set used in text encoding, and may also be known as ANSI/NISO Z39.47 or American Library Association character set (as used in library systems including the MARC format).