Retrieving Images Verbally: No More Key Words and Other Heresies

• Published in: Library hi tech Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 51
• Main Author: Small, Jocelyn Penny
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Art History; Classification; Computer System Design; Database Development; Humanities; Information Retrieval; International Programs; Mythology; Visual Imagery

Describes the development of a system to retrieve images for an international project that is producing a pictorial dictionary of classical mythology, the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Applications to other types of information are discussed, two classification systems for Art Histor...