Beyond Image Retrieval: Bridging Digitization Processes and End-User Judgments in a Large-Scale Image Digital Library

本研究将探讨影像数位图书馆（IDL）数位转换指引与使用者对IDL内容品质、完整性与价值判断之间的关系。研究的轨迹是在美国国会图书馆的美国记忆收藏，一个非常大的，国际上重要的图书馆的摄影资源的数字化代理的重要集合。在这个探索性的研究调查的重点是“视觉智能”的专家学者在几个不同的学科，一个领域，很少或根本没有得到关注的研究文献中的判断，但正变得越来越中央的增值评估，通过创建图像数字图书馆。

This project will undertake exploratory research on the relationships between digital conversion guidelines for Image Digital Libraries (IDL) and end-user judgments about the quality, integrity, and value of IDL content. The locus of the research is on significant collections of digitized surrogates of photographic resources in the Library of Congress's American Memory collection, a very large, internationally significant library. The focus of investigation in this exploratory research is the judgments of "visually intelligent" expert-scholars in several distinct disciplines, an area that has received little or no attention in the research literature but that is becoming increasingly central to the assessment of the value added through the creation of image digital libraries.