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Catalog & Search
(A two-way guessing game...)
"These two people -- the end-user and cataloger -- as well as the two stages in which the image is first viewed by the cataloger and later retrieved by the end-user, are totally independent of each other and usually are separated in time and space; but they are also indefinably linked by very real levels of verbal and nonverbal communication." 9
"Retrieval of appropriate images depends on intelligent indexing, which one might call the "language" of retrieval; in turn, good indexing depends on proper methodology and suitable terminology." 1
So there are practical advantages to predictable image-word associations,
even if they are harmful...
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The Cataloger must predict what the user will link together, while the Searcher (or "end-user") must guess what has already been linked.
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