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films, it may become possible to walk leisurely,
to wander, to loaf about, stroll and loiter ...
delighted to explore the ordered depth of a film,
to appreciate a thousand details in a sequence
while experiencing the unique character of the
whole. It seemed to me that with the possibility
of 'contemplating' a film, that the concept of
author was very likely to change... Occasionally,
it occured to me that we still haven't learned to
watch films, that we haven't had the means at our
disposal, except for a few specialists with access
to a viewing table, and that if cinema is still a
very young art, the reading of films has barely
begun. <115>
De Mey points to the importance of the Socratic dictum
"Know thyself" within a cognitive model. <116> This raises
the issue of studiousness, <117> for the browser, the exa-
miner of a ranked output, and the person making a relevance
judgement is each an active participant only being guided by
a system. <118> For the need which cannot be met by a known
item or by a text deemed good for a specific occurrence of a
general or frequent need, some level of user engagement with
the document collection is required. This is especially the
case with the current moving image documents, since there is
no convention of citation and bibliographical references.
The rich surrogate which is proposed as a means of ena-
bling relevance judgements and browsing of moving image
documents cannot be simple. No single sort of partitioning
guide will be adequate, no single term or number can be
expected to adequately characterize any given document's
likely benefit to an individual user. It must combine
several levels of complexity, which may have to be searched,
combined, ignored, and synthesized by the user. The proposedReproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
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O'Connor, Brian Clark. Access to Film and Video Works: Surrogates for Moving Image Documents, dissertation, 1984; [Berkeley, California]. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77222/m1/65/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.