How people describe their image information needs: a grounded theory analysis of visual arts queries

  • Authors:
  • Sally Jo Cunningham;David Bainbridge;Masood Masoodian

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand;University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand;University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

When people are looking for visual arts information-information related to images-how do they characterize their needs? We analyze a set of 404 queries to identify the attributes that people provide to the Google Answers™ 'ask an expert' online reference system. The results suggest directions to take in developing an effective organization and features for an image digital library.