TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking image indexing?
AU - Christensen, Hans Dam
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - An abundance of literature on image indexing, visual and image retrieval methods, content-based image retrieval, image tagging, visual information seeking, and so on, is available in information studies. Art historian Erwin Panofsky figures prominently in the literature on image indexing. The logic of Panofsky's model is inverted (again) and, in addition, vernacular art historical practices are taken for granted as rendering a solid domain specific methodology. In terms of discussions about the formal qualities of images beyond Panofsky, things are again more complex than just relying on the above-mentioned minimal context information. 'Cultural knowledge,' which Huang and colleagues identify as growing in the transfer from the preiconographical to the iconological sublayer, might not be in question when it comes to the automated indexing of pixels, as every digitally created tone of a color can, of course, be defined within the system, but a color is not just a color in the image-word negotiation. many picture collections contain huge numbers of objects, inaccurately indexed, inadequately indexed or indexed using older methods that need to be converted into new modes. In addition, new (and partly commercial) platforms and photo sharing services exist, and will probably continue to emerge in the future, with enormous amounts of digital objects, far beyond the scale and contents of traditional cultural heritage collections; in addition, in particular the social platforms will be far beyond the controlled vocabulary of professional indexers.
AB - An abundance of literature on image indexing, visual and image retrieval methods, content-based image retrieval, image tagging, visual information seeking, and so on, is available in information studies. Art historian Erwin Panofsky figures prominently in the literature on image indexing. The logic of Panofsky's model is inverted (again) and, in addition, vernacular art historical practices are taken for granted as rendering a solid domain specific methodology. In terms of discussions about the formal qualities of images beyond Panofsky, things are again more complex than just relying on the above-mentioned minimal context information. 'Cultural knowledge,' which Huang and colleagues identify as growing in the transfer from the preiconographical to the iconological sublayer, might not be in question when it comes to the automated indexing of pixels, as every digitally created tone of a color can, of course, be defined within the system, but a color is not just a color in the image-word negotiation. many picture collections contain huge numbers of objects, inaccurately indexed, inadequately indexed or indexed using older methods that need to be converted into new modes. In addition, new (and partly commercial) platforms and photo sharing services exist, and will probably continue to emerge in the future, with enormous amounts of digital objects, far beyond the scale and contents of traditional cultural heritage collections; in addition, in particular the social platforms will be far beyond the controlled vocabulary of professional indexers.
U2 - 10.1002/asi.23812
DO - 10.1002/asi.23812
M3 - Letter
SN - 2330-1635
VL - 68
SP - 1782
EP - 1785
JO - American Society for Information Science and Technology. Journal
JF - American Society for Information Science and Technology. Journal
IS - 7
ER -