Content-Based Indexing of Spatial Objects in Digital Libraries

✍ Scribed by Su-Shing Chen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 270 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1047-3203
• DOI: 10.1006/jvci.1996.0003

✦ Synopsis

support well the user need and utilization in the content-Digital libraries are being built upon internet-based systems based searching and retrieval for spatial digital library obof heterogeneous information bases which contain texts, images, jects. This paper studies ways to index spatial objects so audio, video, and graphics. A relatively unexplored but imthat their contents and semantics are represented in the portant research area for digital libraries is the indexing of searching and retrieving mechanisms.

spatial objects and 3-D geometric information. This paper pro-

Spatial objects differ from text objects in many ways. vides some new content-based approaches to this area. Experi-There is an old saying: ''A picture is worth a thousand ence gained from building a digital molecular biology library words.'' A picture contains a lot of information. There are including spatially indexed biological objects is described. multiple things situated at different locations in a picture.