| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- 1 Information, retrieval, discourse and communication -- Introduction -- Traditional approaches to information retrieval -- Information retrieval and subject analysis -- Information retrieval and discursive forms -- Information retrieval and subjective discourse -- Meaning, codes and conventions -- Panofsky and levels of meaning -- 2 An overview of information retrieval -- Introduction -- What is IR? -- Knowledge organization in libraries -- IR from the perspective of computer applications -- Bibliographic approaches to web resources -- Other approaches to IR -- Key questions for computerized IR -- 3 Multimedia information retrieval -- Introduction -- The problems of 'multimedia documents' -- User warrant in image retrieval research -- Multimedia (information) systems -- The aims of multimedia information retrieval -- Ways in which MMIR systems satisfy their aims -- Digital libraries and archives -- MMIR and the Internet -- Towards the ideal multimedia retrieval system? -- 4 Using semiotics to analyse multimedia objects -- Introduction -- The 'founding fathers' of semiotics -- Analytical categories -- Social semiotics and modality -- Communication models -- Semiotics of film -- Goran Sonesson and visual semiotics -- Semiotics of music -- Icon, index, symbol revisited -- Towards the ideal multimedia retrieval system: take 2? -- 5 Using multimedia indexing tools -- Introduction -- Specialist multimedia retrieval tools -- Reading non-textual information objects -- Interpretation and modality -- Indexing the multimedia objects using MMIR tools -- 6 Research issues -- Introduction -- Content-based image retrieval -- Democratic Indexing: an alternative approach to concept-based retrieval -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Multimedia (Art) -- Abstracting and indexing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hidderley, Rob
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| ISBN |
9781351928137 |
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1351928139 |
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