How people describe their image information needs a grounded theory analysis of visual arts queries

When people are looking for visual arts information-information related to images-how do they characterize their needs? We analyze a set of 404 queries to identify the attributes that people provide to the Google Answers™ 'ask an expert' online reference system. The results suggest directi...

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Published inProceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries pp. 47 - 48
Main Authors Cunningham, Sally Jo, Bainbridge, David, Masoodian, Masood
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 07.06.2004
IEEE
ACM Press
SeriesACM Conferences
Subjects
Applied sciences
Computer science
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
History
Human factors
Image analysis
Information analysis
Information retrieval
Information systems > Information retrieval > Information retrieval query processing
Information systems. Data bases
Memory organisation. Data processing
Software
Software libraries
Subspace constraints
digital library
visual arts
grounded theory
Computer vision
Image analysis
Database query
Reference system
Expert system
Graphical interface
Digital image
Visual information
Electronic library
Information theory
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ISBN1581138326
9781581138320
DOI10.1145/996350.996362

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Summary:When people are looking for visual arts information-information related to images-how do they characterize their needs? We analyze a set of 404 queries to identify the attributes that people provide to the Google Answers™ 'ask an expert' online reference system. The results suggest directions to take in developing an effective organization and features for an image digital library.
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ISBN:1581138326
9781581138320
DOI:10.1145/996350.996362