Content-based search in medieval manuscripts

Author

Psarrou, A. ; Konstantinou, V. ; Morse, P. ; Reilly, P.O.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Westminster, London, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

4-4 Dec. 1997

Firstpage

187

Abstract

HISTORIA is one of the six projects funded by the European Union Telematics in Libraries programme. The objective of the project is the design and realisation of a digital image library equipped with search and query tools for coding and retrieving information from reproductions of medieval manuscripts that contain heraldic images. In this paper we discuss the particular problems encountered in the indexing and search of manuscripts related to the geneology of Venetian noble families and their associated heraldry and present a prototype digital library.

Keywords

academic libraries; history; image processing; indexing; information retrieval; search problems; visual databases; European Union Telematics in Libraries programme; HISTORIA; Venetian noble families; coding; content-based search; design; digital image library; geneology; heraldic images; indexing; medieval manuscripts; prototype digital library; query tools; reproductions; retrieval; search tools; Arm; Art; Books; Computer science; Digital images; Image retrieval; Indexing; Shape; Software libraries; Telematics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '97. IEEE Region 10 Annual Conference. Speech and Image Technologies for Computing and Telecommunications., Proceedings of IEEE

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld., Australia

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4365-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1997.647288

Filename

647288