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Peer reviewedRamsey, Marshall C.; Chen, Hsinchun; Zhu, Bin; Schatz, Bruce R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Discusses problems in creating indices and thesauri for digital libraries of geo-spatial multimedia content and proposes a scalable method to automatically generate visual thesauri of large collections of geo-spatial media using fuzzy, unsupervised machine-learning techniques. Uses satellite photographs as examples and discusses texture-based…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Indexing, Maps, Multimedia Materials
Download full textWharton, Sarah K. – 2000
The purpose of this research is to investigate indexing issues that pertain to the development of digital libraries, including: the identification of sublanguage vocabulary; domain-specific indexing; and other indexing tools. Thesauri are needed for digital libraries in order to improve end-user access. To demonstrate the importance of thesauri to…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Indexes, Indexing, Information Management
Geisselmann, Friedrich – 2000
This paper begins with some general remarks about the indexing of electronic publications. Characteristics of today's information world are highlighted, including decentralization, distributed data collections, and heterogeneous data structures and indexing procedures. Three possible models for managing access to information are summarized: a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Classification, Decentralization
Cochrane, Pauline Atherton, Ed.; Johnson, Eric H., Ed. – 1998
This proceedings represents and documents in part the 16 presentations made at the 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. World Wide Web URLs that provide insight into each presentation are included. Presentations include: (1) "Hypostatizing Data Collections, Especially Bibliographic: Abstractions, Representations,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Classification, Data Processing
