... the characteristics and functionalities of existing search interfaces and similar tools available for image retrieval. Design/methodology/approach – An examination of 159 resources that offer image retrieval was carried out. First, general search functionalities offered by content-based image retrieval systems...

... characteristics and functionalities for image retrieval in a bilingual context. Design/methodology/approach – A bilingual (English and French) questionnaire containing closed and open questions was developed and administered to two groups of participants: 20 English-speaking and 20 French-speaking...

... these resources is that they generally bring together tags (or uncontrolled indexing terms) in multiple languages. Digital images Taxonomy Card sorting Image indexing Image retrieval Controlled vocabularies Controlled vocabulary, such as classification systems and taxonomies, can assist in both...

... of formulating the queries for image retrieval. Consequently, if the manner of searching images is evolving gradually, maybe it is time to conjecture whether the image indexing methods, and more particularly the controlled vocabulary traditionally employed for the indexing process, is still well adapted...