Library Trends
1999 Volume 48, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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Intellectual Access to Images
Hsin-Liang Chen & Edie M. Rasmussen
The increased availability of digital images is accompanied by a need for solutions to the problems inherent in indexing them for retrieval. Problems in image description and access are discussed, ... More
pp. 291-302
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Getting the Picture: Observations from the Library of Congress on Providing Online Access to Pictorial Images
Caroline R. Arms
The Library of Congress (LC) has increasingly created digital reproductions of visual materials to enhance access to its resources. This article describes selected aspects of LC's practical... More
pp. 379-409
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Recent Developments in Cultural Heritage Image Databases: Directions for User-Centered Design
Christie Stephenson
Examines the Museum Educational Site Licensing (MESL) Project--a cooperative project between seven cultural heritage repositories and seven universities--as well as other developments of cultural... More
pp. 410-37
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Information Retrieval beyond the Text Document
Yong Rui, Michael Ortega, Thomas S. Huang & Sharad Mehrotra
Reports some of the progress made over the years toward exploring information beyond the text domain. Describes the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval Systems (MARS), developed to increase access to... More
pp. 455-74
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Precise and Efficient Retrieval of Captioned Images: The MARIE Project
Neil C. Rowe
The MARIE project explores knowledge-based information retrieval of captioned images of the kind found in picture libraries and on the Internet. MARIE's five-part approach exploits the idea that... More
pp. 475-95