Analysis of user need in image archives

摘要

This paper describes a project in which an analysis was undertaken of user queries addressed to seven libraries which manage archives of widely varying still and moving image material. The sampling procedure is described, in which queries obtained from each library were broadly categorised by image content, identification and accessi- bility. Attention is focused on the image content requests, for which a categorisation based on facet analysis is devel- oped. The analytical tool which is used for this purpose is based on a schema already well established for the analysis of levels of meaning in images.