Indexing Multimedia and Creative Works: The Problems of Meaning and Interpretation

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ISBN: 9780754632542 | 0754632547
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Copyright: 2/28/2005

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Indexing and information retrieval (IR) or textual and non-textual media depend on shared meaning. The authors of this comprehensive introduction present the challenges of multimedia indexing in the modern world.

List of figures

vii

List of tables

Foreword

xiii

1 Information, retrieval, discourse and communication

(16)

Introduction

(1)

Traditional approaches to information retrieval

(2)

Information retrieval and subject analysis

(2)

Information retrieval and discursive forms

(1)

Information retrieval and subjective discourse

(2)

Meaning, codes and conventions

(4)

Panofsky and levels of meaning

(4)

2 An overview of information retrieval

(26)

Introduction

(1)

What is IR?

(1)

Knowledge organization in libraries

(11)

IR from the perspective of computer applications

(5)

Bibliographic approaches to web resources

(4)

Other approaches to IR

(2)

Key questions for computerized IR

(3)

3 Multimedia information retrieval

(28)

Introduction

(1)

The problems of 'multimedia documents'

(3)

User warrant in image retrieval research

(3)

Multimedia (information) systems

(2)

The aims of multimedia information retrieval

(5)

Ways in which MMIR systems satisfy their aims

(3)

Digital libraries and archives

(10)

MMIR and the Internet

(1)

Towards the ideal multimedia retrieval system?

(1)

4 Using semiotics to analyse multimedia objects

(28)

Introduction

(1)

The 'founding fathers' of semiotics

(4)

Analytical categories

(5)

Social semiotics and modality

(4)

Communication models

(4)

Semiotics of film

(2)

Goran Sonesson and visual semiotics

(2)

Semiotics of music

(2)

Icon, index, symbol revisited

(2)

Towards the ideal multimedia retrieval system: take 2?

(2)

5 Using multimedia indexing tools

(76)

Introduction

(1)

Specialist multimedia retrieval tools

(13)

Reading non-textual information objects

112

(12)

Interpretation and modality

124

(2)

Indexing the multimedia objects using MMIR tools

126

(49)

6 Research issues

175

(16)

Introduction

175

(1)

Content-based image retrieval

175

(2)

Democratic Indexing: an alternative approach to concept-based retrieval

177

(10)

Conclusion

187

(4)

Bibliography

191

(12)

Index

203

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Indexing Multimedia and Creative Works: The Problems of Meaning and Interpretation

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