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PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION PICTORIAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

P.G.B. ENSER (Department of Library and Information Studies University of Brighton, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9PH)

Journal of Documentation

ISSN: 0022-0418

Article publication date: 1 February 1995

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Abstract

This paper surveys theoretical and practical issues associated with a particular type of information retrieval problem, namely that where the information need is pictorial. The paper is contextualised by the notion of a visually stimulated society, in which the ease of record creation and transmission in the visual medium is contrasted with the difficulty of gaining effective subject access to the world's stores of such records. The technological developments which, in casting the visual image in electronic form, have contributed so significantly to its availability are reviewed briefly, as a prelude to the main thrust of the paper. Concentrating on still and moving pictorial forms of the visual image, the paper dwells on issues related to the subject indexing of pictorial material and discusses four models of pictorial information retrieval corresponding with permutations of the verbal and visual modes for the representation of picture content and of information need.

Citation

ENSER, P.G.B. (1995), "PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION PICTORIAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 51 No. 2, pp. 126-170. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026946

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