Browsing Image Collections with Representations of Common-Sense Activities

摘要

To support browsing-based subject access to image collections, it is necessary to provide users with net- works of subject terms that are organized in an intuitive, richly interconnected manner. A principled approach to this task is to organize the subject terms by their rela- tionship to activity contexts that are commonly under- stood among users. This article describes a methodol- ogy for creating networks of subject terms by manually representing a large number of common-sense activities that are broadly related to image subject terms. The application of this methodology to the Library of Con- gress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials produced 768 representations that supported users of a prototype browsing-based retrieval system in searching large, in- dexed photograph collections.