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Looking for a picture: an analysis of everyday image information searching

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There is at present a dearth of information on the everyday image information behavior of ordinary people. Analysis of a set of 64 image-related searches provides insight into potentially useful facilities for an image digital library.

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JCDL '06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
June 2006
402 pages
ISBN:1595933549
DOI:10.1145/1141753
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Published: 11 June 2006

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  1. image digital library
  2. image searching

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JCDL06: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006
June 11 - 15, 2006
NC, Chapel Hill, USA

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