Title :
Kooks, obsessives, Sturgeon´s law, and the real meaning of search
Author_Institution :
FX Palo Alto Lab., CA, USA
Abstract :
Collecting and organizing is a basic human activity which leads to the need for retrieval. The author explains what this means for media searching and presents a proposition for what research on media searching should address.
Keywords :
information retrieval; multimedia systems; Sturgeon law; file organization; media retrieval; media search; Astronomy; Books; Computer hacking; Databases; Encoding; Fractals; Humans; Leg; Ontologies; Recycling;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MMUL.2005.49
