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Peer reviewedEnser, P. G. B. – Journal of Documentation, 1995
Surveys theoretical and practical issues associated with pictorial information retrieval. Concentrating on still and moving pictorial forms of the visual image, this paper focuses on indexing pictorial material and discusses four models of pictorial information retrieval corresponding with permutations of the verbal and visual modes for the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Indexing, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedHjorland, Birger – Journal of Documentation, 1992
Argues that indexing and classification schemes rely on an understanding of "subject" and discusses several different conceptions of subject as epistemological positions. It is further argued that a theory of subject must be based in a theory of knowledge, and a theory based on a realistic/materialistic epistemology is proposed. (39…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Epistemology, Indexing
