Title :
How people describe their image information needs: a grounded theory analysis of visual arts queries
Author :
Cunningham, Sally Jo ; Bainbridge, David ; Masoodian, Masood
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waikato Univ., Hamilton, New Zealand
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
Internet; art; digital libraries; image retrieval; information needs; information retrieval; Google Answers; grounded theory analysis; image digital library; image information need; online reference system; visual arts information; visual arts query; Art; Computer science; History; Human factors; Image analysis; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Painting; Software libraries; Subspace constraints;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-832-6
DOI :
10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336095
