From Images To Images: the ALADIN project
Katell Briatte, Marie Després‐Lonnet · ICHIM · 1999
Scholars in the field of historical research have used iconographic databases for a long time. The rise of the Internet led numerous libraries and research center to envisage the sharing of this scientific patrimony with the general public. But such a popularization project cannot be undertaken wlthout reassessing the initial orientation of the database. This communication presents the results of tests carried out as part of a digitization project undertaken by a team of librarians and historians. After an in-depth analysis of the process of image reading, we suggest new ways to access and index images. First, we propose an overview interface to allow for a constant dialog between the user and the archive; secondly, we have recourse to the concept of scenotype to better understand image reading and to conceive an innovative indexing method.