期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1931-6550
出版年度：2009
卷号：35
期号：5
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：While most of us still read print media, the widespread existence of visual information in our culture is undeniable. Today’s visually oriented society demands further development in the area of visual representation, search and retrieval. Websites such as Flickr [1] and YouTube [2] contain millions of visual documents, but it is not always easy to find the exact video or photograph you “just know” exists on one of these sites. Increasingly, major websites such as cnn.com and msn.com provide video and still images to supplement or replace text-based articles, although there is no useful way to search for them. Google Earth’s [3] ability to overlay user-supplied geographic information, photographs and other data onto maps is revolutionary, but finding the appropriate files to display what we want to see can be tricky. The newspaper USA Today [4] is known for its striking visual representations of quantitative data, but it is difficult to find them again after publication.
