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In mediating between image collections and image information needs, visual resource professionals--stock image and footage experts, slide librarians, video and film archivists, museum librarians and curators, and so forth--have traditionally assisted users in defining and expressing their image needs and helped to match those needs to appropriate images from a variety of sources. These requests are often among the most challenging to satisfy due to the disconnect between the words that users employ in image requests, and the words (or visual attributes) that are used by systems for image retrieval. This article presents a description of the challenges in providing digital image reference and presents the results of a study exploring these challenges in digital image reference practice. Data for the project include terms extracted from image requests, terms extracted from image answers provided by digital reference librarians, and the associated terms used to index these images on the Web. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
