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'The authors state at the onset of the volume that they are building a case that existing approaches to multimedia retrieval generally start at the wrong place and ignore important issues related to meaning, communication and interpretation . Indeed, the ardor with which they unveil this view comes through in this informative and compelling volume.' Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services, 2006 ' The book would be of interest to postgraduate students with an interest in multimedia information retrieval, or those working in film or photographic archives' Information and Library Science 'This study is, of course, a must book for professional indexers, especially its more technical parts. But it can also offer inspiring reading and some original ideas to all those concerned with the interpretation of meaning in general, in creative works especially and, first of all, non-verbal multimedis texts.' International Review of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music 'This is an interesting book that attacks a difficult and important problem - the intractability of which is likely to increase significantly in coming years as we all face the mounting issues of retrieving our personal collections of static images, cuttings, multimedia creations, DVDs and sound recordings.' The Electronic Library Vol 24 No4 2006

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Rob Hidderley worked in industry prior to becoming a lecturer in 1985. His background in information systems and database management led him to his interest in the problems of storing and retrieving multimedia information. A member of the British Computer Society from 1986 and a Chartered Engineer since 1990, Rob is currently a Principal Lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Central England, Birmingham, and his current teaching and research interests are in the areas of multimedia information retrieval, 'interactive fiction' and 'internet democracy'. Pauline Rafferty is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Central England, Birmingham. Pauline also taught at the University of Northumbria. Before moving into teaching, she worked in information research and media librarianship. She became interested in multimedia indexing while working in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama's library as a drama librarian. Her current teaching and research interests are in the areas of multimedia information retrieval, representations of knowledge and classification theory. Pauline is a chartered member of CILIP. Jointly, Rob and Pauline have been researching problems in multimedia indexing, and possible solutions. They have developed an original approach to the indexing of multimedia artefacts, described in this book, which they call 'Democratic Indexing' Together they have published journal articles and conference papers in the area of image and multimedia retrieval and Democratic Indexing.

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