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End-User Searching Challenges Indexing Practices in the Digital Newspaper Photo Archive
: Previous research in conceptual indexing methods of images has furnished us with refined theoretical frameworks characterising various aspects of images that could and should be ...
Marjo Markkula, Eero Sormunen
ERCIMDL
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Access to Archival Finding Aids: Context Matters
We detail the design of a search engine for archival finding aids based on an XML database system. The resulting system shows results--which can vary in granularity from individual...
Junte Zhang, Khairun Nisa Fachry, Jaap Kamps
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
A Search Log-Based Approach to Evaluation
Abstract. Anyone offering content in a digital library is naturally interested in assessing its performance: how well does my system meet the users' information needs? Standar...
Junte Zhang, Jaap Kamps
JCDL
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
What's there and what's not?: focused crawling for missing documents in digital libraries
Some large scale topical digital libraries, such as CiteSeer, harvest online academic documents by crawling open-access archives, university and author homepages, and authors’ s...
Ziming Zhuang, Rohit Wagle, C. Lee Giles
JCDL
2009
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Developing a flexible content model for media repositories: a case study
This article describes the process and challenges of developing a content model that can support the content and metadata present in a complex media archive. Media archives have s...
Christopher A. Beer, Peter D. Pinch, Karen Cariani