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ABSTRACT
This article discusses a survey distributed to photojournalism professionals in order to determine their metadata preferences for photograph retrieval in an online archival system. Their top preferences included: named objects, specific events occurring in the photograph, browsing, and photographer-supplied keywords. Findings included problems with news photographers' metadata quality as well as librarians' inability to supply all the necessary metadata in this context. Additionally, it was found that current controlled vocabulary methods are not useful for the photojournalists' setting. New approaches to better facilitate search and retrieval of news photographs are suggested.
The author would like to thank her doctoral dissertation committee members, Dr. Shawne Miksa, Dr. Brian O'Connor, Dr. Samantha Hastings, and Dr. Howard Greisdorf, for their invaluable guidance throughout this research project. She would also like to thank Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn and Mr. Chris Landbeck for their helpful feedback on article drafts.