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Abstract

At the same time that the Internet is becoming more accessible to large numbers of people and information consumers are becoming information producers, traditional methods of organizing, describing, and providing access to "documents" are being overwhelmed by the ever-increasing number of digitized materials. Another parallel occurrence is the disappearance of cultural and indigenous knowledge as environments and peoples cease to exist. Therefore, the knowledge and ability to build and describe collections needs to be spread among a larger distributed group of participants. Three mechanisms are needed to facilitate this "unlocking" of collections and their management: the distributed description and annotation of documents, distributed collection building, and distributed knowledge creation.

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 55(2004) no.5, S.462-464

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Encyclopedia of library and information sciences. 3rd ed. Ed.: M.J. Bates

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Abstract

This article presents exploratory research evaluating a conceptual structure for the description of visual content of images. The structure, which was developed from empirical research in several fields (e.g., Computer Science, Psychology, Information Studies, etc.), classifies visual attributes into a "Pyramid" containing four syntactic levels (type/technique, global distribution, local structure, composition), and six semantic levels (generic, specific, and abstract levels of both object and scene, respectively). Various experiments are presented, which address the Pyramid's ability to achieve several tasks: (1) classification of terms describing image attributes generated in a formal and an informal description task, (2) classification of terms that result from a structured approach to indexing, and (3) guidance in the indexing process. Several descriptions, generated by naive users and indexers, are used in experiments that include two image collections: a random Web sample, and a set of news images. To test descriptions generated in a structured setting, an Image Indexing Template (developed independently over several years of this project by one of the authors) was also used. The experiments performed suggest that the Pyramid is conceptually robust (i.e., can accommodate a full range of attributes), and that it can be used to organize visual content for retrieval, to guide the indexing process, and to classify descriptions obtained manually and automatically

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 52(2001) no.11, S.938-947

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The potential impact of the Internet an the public's Jemand for the services and resources of public libraries is an issue of critical importance. The research reported in this article provides baseline data concerning the evolving relationship between the public's use of the library and its use of the Internet. The authors developed a consumer model of the American adult market for information services and resources, segmented by use (or nonuse) of the public library and by access (or lack of access) to, and use (or nonuse) of, the Internet. A national Random Digit Dialing telephone survey collected data to estimate the size of each of six market segments, and to describe their usage choices between the public library and the Internet. The analyses presented in this article provide estimates of the size and demographics of each of the market segments; describe why people are currently using the public library and the Internet; identify the decision criteria people use in their choices of which provider to use; identify areas in which libraries and the Internet appear to be competing and areas in which they appear to be complementary; and identify reasons why people choose not to use the public library and/or the Internet. The data suggest that some differentiation between the library and the Internet is taking place, which may very well have an impact an consumer choices between the two. Longitudinal research is necessary to fully reveal trends in these usage choices, which have implications for all types of libraries in planning and policy development.

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 53(2002) no.10, S.802-802

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Allowing the description of the structure of documents has been one of the key factors for the success of the hypertext markup language (HTML) family of markup languages. This capability has motivated the phenomenon that has become known as the World Wide Web (the "Web"). The next generation of the Web, known as the Semantic Web (Berners-Lee, Hendler. & Lassila, 2001), aims at describing the meaning rather than the structure of data, adding more intelligent search, retrieval, and other agent functionalities to the Web, and tools that make the implementation of this Semantic Web possible are greatly needed. The increasing availability of multimedia on the World Wide Web makes metadata description efforts for multimedia a pressing need, yet with the volume of content being created, often only a rudimentary description of the multimedia content is available. In addition, the digital mode entails a host of other descriptive needs, such as the format, factors such as compression and transmission, and issues such as copyright restrictions and terns for usage. Thus, new and efficient ways of describing multimedia content and meaning are needed as well as a structure that is capable of carrying such descriptions. Several attempts have been made to grapple with this issue using descriptive metadata, one of the earliest of which was the revision of the Dublin Core to ascertain essential features necessary to resource discovery of visual items in a networked environment (Weibel & Miller, 1997). Other metadata schemes, such as the Visual Resources Association Core Categories (http://www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm), also include format information necessary to the use and display of digital images.

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(2007) no.9, S.1323-1328

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56(2005) no.12, S.1346-1359

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(2007) no.9, S.1338-1345

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We are, it appears, on the hinge of an important historical swing back towards what may be called the primacy of the image. For the last few centuries, words have been the privileged form of communication and the preferred means of education. A shift has taken place, however, within the last several decades, and images have been reasserting their primacy as immediate and influential messengers. This change was heralded some years ago in a slim volume entitled, "The Telling Image: The Changing Balance between Pictures and Words in a Technological Age."' (Davies, Bathurst, & Bathurst). The author of this book describes a past in which images (e.g., pictograms, ideograms) were the only form of written communication for 25,000 out of the 30,000 years of human recorded experience. The invention of the phonetic alphabet began to change this. It is only during the last 500 years, with the invention of printing, that pictures as serious "messengers" receded well into the background. One reason for this was the sheer difficulty in producing images. However, with the widespread availability of easy-to-use image creation technologies, images are again being widely used in education, training, and persuasion, not to mention entertainment. The rise in image production and use has been accompanied by the theory of hemispheric lateralization (more popularly referred to as "left-brain/right brain" abilities), which arose during the last 40 years (Jaynes, 1976; Levy, 1974; Penfield & Roberts, 1959). This theory holds that functions of cognitive processing are located primarily in either the left or right hemispheres of the brain. The brain's left hemisphere seems to be linked to language processing, and is well exercised by the overall emphasis on speech and text in education and information systems. The brain's right hemisphere handles spatial reasoning, symbolic processing, and pictorial interpretation. The widespread use and acceptance of Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs) in computer systems and the development of iconic programming languages demonstrate that visual mechanisms appeal to a broader range of cognitive abilities than text alone. In a sense, then, images are the hinge between textual representation and direct experience.

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 52(2001) no.11, S.906-910