Flickr and democratic indexing: Dialogic approaches to indexing

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 59, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 397-410

  Rafferty, Pauline ^a   Hidderley, Rob ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Indexing; Tagging; Visual databases

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PHOTOINTERPRETATION;

AUTHOR-GENERATED INDEXING; EXPERT-LED INDEXING; FLICKR AND DEMOCRATIC INDEXING; RETRIEVAL FUNCTIONS; SELF-ORGANISING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL TAGGING; USER-ORIENTATED INDEXING;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 34548496004     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530710817591     Document Type: Article

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