A socio-technical perspective of museum practitioners' image-using behaviors

Electronic Library

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-35

  Chen, Hsin Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Image processing; Indexing services; Museums

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MUSEUMS;

DIGITAL MUSEUMS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; IMAGE-INDEXING; INDEXING SERVICES; SOCIO-TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 33847147201     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470710729092     Document Type: Article

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