Penn State visual image user study

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Volumn 7, Issue 7-8, 2001, Pages

  Pisciotta, Henry ^a   Brisson, Roger ^a   Ferrin, Eric ^a   Dooris, Michael ^a   Spink, Amanda ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 3042597920     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/july2001-pisciotta     Document Type: Article

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1. In this paper, the term "digital image" is used to describe still pictorial data files rather than image files that primarily convey text. The proposed project focuses upon collections of still images in the major image file formats (JPEG, GIF, TIFF, etc.). Images of text pages (scanned manuscripts or books) are excluded.
2. Besser and Yamashita, "The Cost of Digital", "Executive Summary", 8; and Lack, R., "The Patterns of Slide Library Circulation: a Study", 4-5 in: Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita, The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data, Report produced by the School of Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkeley (July, 1998) . Data from a subsequent study supports that prediction: Henry Pisciotta and Tracey DePelligrin, "Demographics of AMICO Library Users at Carnegie Mellon University", (in preparation).
3. Besser and Yamashita, "The Cost of Digital", "Executive Summary", 8; and Lack, R., "The Patterns of Slide Library Circulation: a Study", 4-5 in: Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita, The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data, Report produced by the School of Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkeley (July, 1998) . Data from a subsequent study supports that prediction: Henry Pisciotta and Tracey DePelligrin, "Demographics of AMICO Library Users at Carnegie Mellon University", (in preparation).
4. Besser and Yamashita, "The Cost of Digital", "Executive Summary", 8; and Lack, R., "The Patterns of Slide Library Circulation: a Study", 4-5 in: Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita, The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data, Report produced by the School of Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkeley (July, 1998) . Data from a subsequent study supports that prediction: Henry Pisciotta and Tracey DePelligrin, "Demographics of AMICO Library Users at Carnegie Mellon University", (in preparation).
5. Christie Stephenson, "Recent Developments in Cultural Heritage Databases: Directions for User-Centered Design", Library Trends, 48 (Fall, 1999) pp. 422-424.
6. On the popularity of web search engines for retrieval of pictures see, for example: Abby Goodrum and Amanda Spink, "Image Searching on the Excite Web Search Engine", Information Processing and Management: An International Journal, 37, #2 (2001) p. 295-311.
7. AMICO Library (http://www.amico.org/home.html) is a subscription-based digital image library of over 50,000 art images for use in education, research, and teaching. The Art Museum Image Consortium is a not-for-profit association of art-collecting institutions working together to enable educational use of their digital documentation.
8. OhioLINK (http://www.ohiolink.edu) is the Ohio Library and Information Network, a consortium of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio.
9. The ArtSTOR project is described briefly in: Florence Olson, "Foundation Plans Digital Archives for Art and Architecture", Chronicle of Higher Education, (April 20, 2001) p. A54, or in Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1999 President's Report, .
10. The ArtSTOR project is described briefly in: Florence Olson, "Foundation Plans Digital Archives for Art and Architecture", Chronicle of Higher Education, (April 20, 2001) p. A54, or in Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1999 President's Report, .
11. The AP Photo Archives (http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/index2.htm), Corbis (http://corbis.com), and Saskia, Inc (http://www.saskia.com) are examples of commercial enterprises with digital image databases available through license agreements.
12. For example, the Society of Architectural Historians (http://www.sah.org/imagex.html) has created a digital image exchange program in which members contribute their own slides of buildings. This project posts images of objects mentioned in current textbooks about the history of architecture and provides free access to the images to members and students over the Web.
13. Examples of these approaches include the Visual Image Access system at Harvard (http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/via/index.html), and the Image Services system of the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan (http://images.umdl.umich.edu/i/image/all).
14. For example, within art and architecture the Getty Vocabularies Program has produced structured vocabularies for artists names, geographical names, and art and architecture subjects (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary) and the Visual Resources Association has developed the VRA Core Categories to guide the description of images (http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/%7Estaffaw3/vra/vracore3.htm).
15. For example: Brian C. O'Connor, Mary K. O'Conner, and June M. Abbas, "User Reactions as Access Mechanism: An Exploration Based Upon Captions for Images", Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50, #8 (June, 1999) pp. 681-697.
16. A variety of visual indexing techniques are reviewed in several articles within: Beth Sandore (ed.), "Progress in Visual Information Access and Retrieval" (Thematic Issue), Library Trends, 48, #2 (Fall, 1999). Hybrid systems include MetaSEEK (http://ana.ctr.columbia.edu/metaseek), SIMPLIcity (http://wang.ist.psu.edu/IMAGE), and others.
17. On customization of interfaces, see for example a review of the recent work with library web pages: Eric Lease Morgan (ed.), "Special Issue: User-Customizable Library Portals", Information Technology and Libraries, 19, #4 (December, 2000).
18. C. Merle Crawford, New Products Management, Burr Ridge: Irwin, 1994, and John A. Hall, Bringing New Products to Market, New York: AMACOM, 1991.
19. C. Merle Crawford, New Products Management, Burr Ridge: Irwin, 1994, and John A. Hall, Bringing New Products to Market, New York: AMACOM, 1991.