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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
Keywords or descriptions which are usually provided by a creator or viewers of the information object, especially in Web 2.0 environment. Since group of users participates in describing information objects, it is considered collaborative indexing mechanism and it can represent user-oriented index terms.
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Image Retrieval Practice and Research
JungWon Yoon (University of South Florida, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch587
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