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Psychosemiotics and Libraries: Identifying Signways in Library Informational Guides, Games, and Tutorials
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Laster, Barbara; Blummer, Barbara; Kenton, Jeffrey M. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2010
Tutorials and digital learning objects provide librarians a quick, concise mechanism for delivering information and training on a wide range of library topics. The semiotic theory promoted by Charles Sanders Peirce (Wiener, 1958) and Howard Smith (2005) contains implications for enhancing the effectiveness of library tutorials through the…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Librarians
The NASA Image Collection Visual Thesaurus.
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Rorvig, Mark E.; Turner, C. H.; Moncada, J. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Discussion of the growth of institutional image collections focuses on the development of a visual thesaurus to provide access to the photographic archive of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Addresses specific access problems, including the accurate and rapid description of images entering collections, and searching…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Indexing, Search Strategies, Thesauri
Concept of Video Bookmark (Videomark) and Its Application to the Collaborative Indexing of Lecture Video in Video-Based Distance Education
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Haga, Hirohide – International Journal on E-Learning, 2004
This article describes the development of the video bookmark, hereinafter referred to as the videomark, and its application to the collaborative indexing of the lecture video in video-based distance education system. The combination of the videomark system with the bulletin board system (BBS), which is another network tool used for discussion, is…
Descriptors: Indexing, Lecture Method, Distance Education, Computer Mediated Communication
Visual User Interfaces for Information Exploration.
Shneiderman, Ben – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Discussion of human-computer interfaces focuses on the use of graphical and direct manipulation approaches to improve the user interface. Topics discussed include information seeking; computerized search capabilities, including full-text string searches, index searches, and hypertext; Boolean expressions; dynamic or direct manipulation queries;…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Hypermedia, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Graphic Resources in the Spanish Art Libraries.
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Medina, Alicia Garcia; Coso, Teresa – 2001
The interest in graphic information has increased explosively and is explored through various communication networks like the Internet and the audiovisual media. Art libraries, museums, cultural centers, and art foundations manage and store a lot of images in several departments and in print and digital formats. This paper discusses the cataloging…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Cataloging, Classification
Abstracts of SIG Sessions.
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Presents abstracts of 36 special interest group (SIG) sessions. Highlights include the Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment; organizing and retrieving images; intelligent information retrieval using natural language processing; interdisciplinarity; libraries as publishers; indexing hypermedia; cognitive aspects of classification; computer-aided…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Conferences