Keyword Searching for Visual Inspiration? Meeting the Image Search Needs of Architecture Students

Meir, Daniel D. Keyword Searching for Visual Inspiration? Meeting the Image Search Needs of Architecture Students., 2016 . In 25th BOBCATSSS Symposium, Tampere (Finland), 25-27 January, 2017. [Conference paper]

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Architecture is an inter-disciplinary field, with an emphasis on creative design skills. Students’ questions at the library’s reference desk relating to their studio design work can be classified into seven categories: architectural history, building types, materials and technologies, construction details, design manuals, precedents and case studies, and visual inspiration. Whereas the first six are similar to those encountered in other disciplines, and can be fulfilled in a straightforward manner using standard library search and discovery tools, visual inspiration poses a challenge to students and librarians. Where does this challenge originate? For over a century the tools and methods used by libraries for subject access, have been developed for predominantly textual materials. A key assumption underlying classification and indexing is that a document is about something, and that this something can be expressed in words. But how can this notion of aboutness be extended to a medium using nonverbal symbolism? This implies that the library’s search and discovery tools and the accepted models for information seeking behavior are not well suited for visual searching. Recent studies in human cognition have shown that the brain is capable of rapid image processing, requiring just a few tens of milliseconds to recognize an image that meets a predefined criteria presented among other images. Therefore, browsing images appearing in search results is more efficient than browsing text. This can be implemented by extracting images from documents in databases and library collections, and displaying them as thumbnails in previews of documents that appear in search results.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Art and Architecture Libraries, Image Retrieval, Image Browsing, Visual Inspiration, Hybrid Library, Reference Services
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BH. Information needs and information requirements analysis.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HH. Audio-visual, Multimedia.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources.
Depositing user: Mr. Daniel D. Meir
Date deposited: 04 Nov 2020 15:03
Last modified: 04 Nov 2020 15:03
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/40591

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