Index Access Points in a Study of Intellectual Access to Digitized Art Images

Digitized image information is becoming an integral part of a new generation of information management systems. Many of the documents that are being converted into electronic formats contain images. Traditional retrieval and indexing methods for providing access to large text databases do not offer adequate access to the images which often accompany the text (Lunin, 1990). The differences between text and images necessitate that research in retrieval techniques for images begin with an understanding of how people search for images, how images are indexed, how images are used, and what display resolutions are needed for specific tasks.