Message-Id: <mailto:199407191555.KAA13840@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 10:39:39 -0400 From: mailto:rice_ll@MRICD4.APGEA.ARMY.MIL> Subject: NAL IMAGE PROJECT: INDEXING To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
>The issue raised here is a difficult one to which I can only contribute the
>fact that NAL and the University of Pittsburgh School of Library and
>Information Sciences will be evaluating image retrieval in a special
>collection of horticultural/botanical prints and a plant pest and disease
>collection. I posted a brief description of the project, the Photo Image
>Project, with a call for participants last week. Not to repeat this, the
>botanical print image database has been developed and indexed at
>University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Sciences.
>Jim Williams is the project director, Stuart MacLean the database
>developer, and Edie Rasmussen had oversight of the indexing.
I am a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh SLIS, who was an indexer on this project. If anyone is interested in hearing about the indexing process from the "front lines" I'd be happy to oblige.
>The latter used terms from textual descriptions accompanying the material and
>others from the Royal Horticultural Society's Dictionary of Gardening
>(1992). While I could provide a sample data record, for a more detailed
>explanation of the fields, indexing rationale, etc., I'd prefer to ask
>the participants from Pittsburgh to provide this, if asked.
As best as I can remember, we (the indexers) used the Dictionary of Gardening to provide us with the information for the following fields:
GENUS SPECIES COMMON_NAMES FLOWER_COLOR NATIVE_REGION ZONE
The other information for the additional fields came from the prints themselves. I will not elaborate on the indexing unless there is an interest.
>The evaluation, which will begin this fall, will measure, among other
>factors, satisfaction with the retrieval of the images. The
>online interface will be through a Mosaic client. Given the way in
>which images are retrieved through Mosaic, it may be difficult to
>evaluate success rates based on indexing terminology in the
>online environment. NAL is producing a CD-ROM version of the database
>which will use text-based retrieval. This may provide an insight into
>the success of the indexing methodologies and terms.
>Pamela
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