Message-Id: <mailto:199408312000.PAA28768@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 13:33:12 EST From: Paul Gherman <mailto:ghermanp@KENYON.EDU> Subject: Re: pictorial or text images? To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
Sandeep's point on all images being the same concerns me. Retrieval of text images can be much easier because text images have provenance based in the bibliographic tradition of cataloging. Non-textual images demand a much different indexing system, one which we just beginning to understand. Text images can be machine indexed for content, non textual images cannot. Although both are stored via the same technology, they are very different breeds of cat, and users access them in very different ways.Paul M. Gherman Director of Libraries Olin and Chalmers Library Kenyon College Gamibier, OH 43022 614-427-5186 voice 614-427-2272 fax mailto:ghermanp@kenyon.edu