Library Trends articles from September 1999

Library Trends archives from September 1999

Introduction.
September 22, 1999... THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE RETRIEVAL APPROACHES for access to visual information is among the most significant of technological, conceptual, and institutional challenges for the library and information science community. On a technological...

Intellectual Access to Images.(image database systems)
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT CONVENIENT IMAGE CAPTURE TECHNIQUES, inexpensive storage, and widely available dissemination methods have made digital images a convenient and easily available information format. This increased availability of images is...

Image Retrieval as Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Visual Model Matching.(Bibliography)
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS RESEARCH ON HOW people use mental models of images in an information retrieval environment. An understanding of these cognitive processes can aid a researcher in designing new systems and help librarians...

Computer Vision Tools for Finding Images and Video Sequences.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT VERY LARGE COLLECTIONS OF IMAGES are now common. Indexing and searching such collections using indexing languages is difficult. Computer vision offers a variety of techniques for searching for pictures in large collections....

Securing Digital Image Assets in Museums and Libraries: A Risk Management Approach.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT THERE IS AN OBVIOUS NEED FOR ONGOING RESEARCH, evaluation, and planning if museums and archives are committed to protecting their digital image assets. A number of potential threats to the integrity of digital image information...

Getting the Picture: Observations from the Library of Congress on Providing Online Access to Pictorial Images(*).
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (LC) has increasingly created digital reproductions of visual materials to enhance access to its resources. Digitization is now a mainstream activity in the Prints and Photographs...

Recent Developments in Cultural Heritage Image Databases: Directions for User-Centered Design.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT FROM 1995 THROUGH 1997, SEVEN CULTURAL HERITAGE repositories and seven universities collaborated on an extensive demonstration project called the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL) to explore the administrative,...

Evaluation of Image Retrieval Systems: Role of User Feedback.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT INTELLECTUAL ACCESS TO A GROWING NUMBER OF NETWORKED image repositories is but a small part of the much larger problem of intellectual access to new information formats. As more and more information becomes available in digital...

Information Retrieval Beyond the Text Document.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT WITH THE EXPANSION OF THE INTERNET, searching for information goes beyond the boundary of physical libraries. Millions of documents of various media types--such as text, image, video, audio, graphics, and animation-are available...

Precise and Efficient Retrieval of Captioned Images: The MARIE Project.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT THE MARIE PROJECT HAS EXPLORED knowledge-based information retrieval of captioned images of the kind found in picture libraries and on the Internet. It exploits the idea that images are easier to understand with context,...

Exploiting Multimodal Context in Image Retrieval.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT THIS RESEARCH EXPLORES THE INTERACTION of textual and photographic information in multimodal documents. The World Wide Web (WWW) may be viewed as the ultimate, large-scale, dynamically changing, multimedia database. Finding...